Guess what we gave our friends as gifts for Valentine’s Day? Candy? Chocolate? No! None of those! We gave them healthy smoothies, made using a bike blender! Do you know what the bike blender is? When you pedal the bike attached to the blender, you generate power needed to make delicious smoothies. No plugs and …
Food Field Trip!
GET City is exploring food around our community from different perspectives: Energy, health and justice. Last week we took a field trip to Market Fresh. While there we had to pick a healthy snack that would feed 20 people for under $20. The task helped us see that it was hard to find something cheap …
2012 Young Innovators Competition Winners!
Great news! Cami and Quahn won awards in the state-wide 2012 Young Innovators Competition sponsored by the Prima Civitas Foundation. Participants in this competition answered the following question: If you could invent anything to improve your community, what would it be and why? Cami won first place in the 6-8th grade division with her creative initiative “Buttons …
Food Taste Test!
GET City had a food taste test to understand how processed foods are different from non-processed foods. We tasted different kinds of foods, such as fruit snacks versus fresh fruits, and bakery wheat bread versus Wonder bread. Then we tried to answer some questions: Which food do you prefer? Which food do you think is …
Welcome back, GET City!
The spring session has kicked off with our fabulous GET Citizens! This Spring we’ll address issues of food and the environment in our community. As a starting point, we interviewed our peers about food: what they usually eat for breakfast, where their family buys groceries, and how they think food connects to the environment. We …
Celebration for winners of the “Energy Saves” video contest!
On December 18, we had time to celebrate our winners in the Lansing Board of Water and Light’s “Energy Saves” video contest at the Boys and Girls Club of Lansing. The Board of Water and Light awarded GET City members a $2,000 check for one first-place entry and two second-place entries. “We judged videos based …
Learning climate change and Hurricane Sandy with a board game!
We have investigated about how climate change causes severe weather like Hurricane Sandy for weeks. Today, we reviewed what we have learned with a board game modified from a Korean traditional board game (called Yut Nori). We tossed four wooden sticks in the air and moved our board pieces on the board based on the …
Science and Taking Action!
GET City is about taking action through science. We, the youth of GET City, are working on a story to teach others about this. Some of the ideas that we talk about are: 1) what is taking action, 2) what are some of things that we do in GET City to take action in science …
Winners of the BWL’s Energy Saves Video Contest!
[GET City News, 1st place] Great news! Some of our GET City members are the winners of the Lansing Board of Water and Light’s 2012 Energy Saves Video Contest! GET City members Jalah, Angel, and Autumn won the first prize in the 7th-9th grade category (with their video “BWL GET City news”). Camryn, Chontalice, and LeD’Jiin …
Get City – Get Aware: Ringtones!
In this video we illustrate our idea for a creative tool for helping to create awareness on environmental issues: RINGTONES!
