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engineering GET City makerspace youth maker October 4, 2016October 14, 2016 by autumn

Electric Art!

Today in Get City, Stephen and I showed everyone how to make a closed circuit with a light and a battery for their electric art projects. At first we forgot how to make the circuit because it has been a while since we did this. But after trying a few different ways, we finally remembered how …

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engineering GET City makerspace youth maker March 26, 2016March 26, 2016 by getcity

The Timmy!

Congratulations to the youth who worked on the Timmy! The “Timmy” is a heated lighted up boot. The boys who made it describe it this way: “This fall, Angie walked in with a cast on and said her toes were cold she really wished that a heated boot/cast existed.  At first we thought about doing …

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engineering GET City little free library makerspace youth maker March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 by autumn

LEAP event!

Today we all went to the Lansing center for the LEAP event to show our projects! Stephen and I showed our library.  We all did amazing! I just wanna say congrats to the group that won! The group that made the Timmy won first place for tech! The Timmy is a heated light up shoe to …

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engineering GET City little free library makerspace Uncategorized youth maker March 23, 2016April 2, 2016 by autumn

Spring! Maker Kits all around!

Today on the second day of Spring,  Stephen and I both worked on the little free library…again!. Stephen started to work on the door for it and I worked on little box kits for kids to make paper circuits. So you guessed it – that is our surprise. We want to have kits not just …

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engineering GET City little free library makerspace youth maker February 10, 2016February 19, 2016 by autumn

About the Little Free Library

Today in Get City, Stephen and I worked on our lil free library a lil bit more. We put a back on it to make it not wobble as much as it did, and we are now working on making a door for it. So far it is looking good and we did a lot …

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little free library makerspace youth maker January 15, 2016January 16, 2016 by autumn

More making!

Today, everyone is working on their projects. Like, for example, Stephen and I are working on a Little Free Library. We’re going to make it for the Boys and Girls Club so that kids don’t have to go to the Public Library to get a book, they can just get one from the little library at …

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engineering GET City little free library makerspace Uncategorized youth maker January 13, 2016January 16, 2016 by autumn

Little free STEM library

Today me and Stephen were looking up pictures of little free libraries to get some ideas about how we want to make ours. We are excited about being able to share STEM books with everyone! There were some pretty cool ones and we got a really good idea from one of them. I hope we …

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engineering GET City makerspace Uncategorized youth maker December 5, 2015January 15, 2016 by autumn

5 minute tops

December 4th,2015 Today is the day! Everyone gets to present their stuff they have been making for the past couple of weeks. I can’t wait to see how creative they are, and there are judges here to check it out. The event today will be amazing ’cause there are a lot of newcomers to GET City and they …

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The GET City Collaborative provides sustained informal engineering design experiences for youth in Michigan and North Carolina. We focus on youth as Community Science Experts and support youths' powerful brilliance as STEM-rich makers as they seek to work towards justice in their maker clubs and communities. We provide youth access to advanced digital technology, science and engineering knowledge and practice, maker spaces, and a network of experts to advance their understandings of and interest in community sustainability, energy and engineering. Founded in 2006, GET City has provided learning, mentoring, and research opportunities to youth ages 10-18.

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