Jan 27, 2020 GET City Speed Make Challenge: GET City Speed Make! Challenge: You have 3.5 minutes to make whatever you can, using the materials on the table! Why this challenge is important. In GET City, we often face time and materials challenges in getting our projects done. SOmetimes that challenge feels exciting, and other …
GET City Panel!
1/17/19 Good afternoon to y’all! Today was the day that the Get City youth got to hear about some projects that me and the other mentors have done, and also of some that the GET City alumni have done. Of course I talked about the Little Free STEM Library, and K and …
Inventing new things and #ASMR slime videos!
11/20/18 Hey guys so for today’s blog your gonna be reading about how Angie, Aaliyah and I made a lollipop engine thing to make optical illusions. We soldered together a motor with two batteries, and then Aliyah had the idea to use the lollipop as a switch so we could turn it on and off. …
Im back!
Blog post 11/8/18 Hey y’all I know that it’s been a while since I’ve wrote a blog post due to the fact that I haven’t been able to come to GET City cause of work. But I’m back now and I’m gonna be writing some more good blogs for y’all. So today the GET City …
GET City Summer Camp Day 3
For day 3 of summer get city we came to Michigan State to do some investigating of how the food we eat is made. For the beginning of the day we went to Shaw Hall to get a tour of the kitchen and how they prep the food they make. For example they have to …
GET City Summer Camp! Part 1
Today in the Get City camp we are creating GIS maps to show where our food comes from, how to travels to us, and how that impacts our environment. Yesterday we interviewed Granny to learn more about how she cooks. We did homework on what are parents favorite foods, and we recorded what our stories …
GET City Mentors Go To New York!
We got on a Delta plane and had an hour and a half ride to NYC! Then we took an Uber from LaGuardia airport to the hotel, and we got to sight see on the way! When we got to the hotel we ended up having to share a room until we could get our …
Getting the word out
For one of my projects I designed a set of signs that give motivating messages to kids in my community. I really wanted to help other kids be open to and have the power they need to have a good relationships with their parents. I thought of the idea because some kids might not know …
Getting down to business
Our Little Free STEM Library wheels broke, so I removed them and now I am adding fabric so that the LFL can move around easily now that we have no wheels on it. Right now I’m cutting up fabric to put at the bottom. I think this will look nice and work. When Im done with …
Finally another update on us!
Today in Get City S and I were working on our website for our project. Since we are working on a foster and adoption project we decided to make a website to have people see some stories about what people think about what a good home is or what a good family means. For example, …