Today we designed a survey to get information on the safety issues that people in our community care about. We put the surveys on our ipads. We are using a survey program that uploads the results immediately so we can see what people are saying. Then we tried to figure out what groups of people …

We’re starting a new project in GET City called Making 4 Change. In this project we are going to be community engineering experts. We are going to work on engineering designs that help out our community. We using the tools of ethnography (F-nography, because F stands for fun) and engineering to help us to design …

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We have never used a glue gun before, and one of our mentors suggested it might help to keep our bird house stable. But we were a little afraid of it. We didn’t want to mess up our project. So, our mentors said we could play around with it. That made us a little nervous. But, we …

Last week in Get City, we started to design our inventions in SketchUp. The invention I am working on is a solar phone case charger. The case allows the sun to indirectly charge your phone, after converting the solar energy into electrical energy. A drawing of the proposed prototype is shown below, and we will …

This year, GET City will introduce new ways of using technology to help the environment. We are going to explore traditional as well as renewable sources of energy. This will include wind and solar powered objects that we use every day. We might even make a light bulb or a grill powered by fruit and …

A food investigator is not only a person who investigates food, but more specifically someone who uses the tools of science to investigate what is in the food they eat, the role of food in their health, and the health of the environment. This summer, in GET City, we are being food investigators in our …

Have you ever thought about how much sugar is in a bottle of Coke or fruit juice? Compared to the recommended daily amount of sugar, we investigated how much sugar was in those drinks. We learned how to read the nutrition label of drinks and then determined the amount of sugar in them. To visualize …

Have you ever played with data like a scientist? Using data that we collected from grocery stores, we learned how to put the datasets into Google Spreadsheets, merge them together, and analyze them. We found something fascinating in the data! We also thought about how we could improve our data collection process, based on the …