I think it is important for kids to have the opportunity to feel accomplished with what they are working on. By keeping working on their projects and making it into a bigger better project kids could help to make a difference, and they could become famous for what they are doing. In electric art kids …
World we need your input! GET City investigations!
Hey world! Help us out! In GET City we are investigating social justice. We want to take some action! And we know a lot about Green Energy that can help us. But we need your help! If you are willing and able, can you please complete our surveys. Our issues matter to us because these …
Project Updates
Hi everyone! Its been busy! This year we have been investigating social justice and oppression. We talked about how lots of different kinds of oppression are related. Across all of us, we are talking about bullying, sexual assault, foster care, water pollution in our cities and much, much more! Last week we had a big …
GET City News!
Hi world! Come see the amazing things we do in GET City. We’re starting back up with our newsletters this Fall 2017. Enjoy, and send us your feedback! You can find our newsletters HERE!
Back to the City!
Today is the first day back for get city. So far we are talking about what get city is and what we are going to do through out the school year, some stuff we have came up with pod cast ideas to address issues in the world. One issue they were talking about is transgender …
Visiting other makerspaces
Today i went to the library in East Lansing with Day and checked out / bought books for GET City from their new makerspace book area. I also checked out their new makerspace, and I used the studio room in there to do a voice over for Stephen and my video we’re going to make …
Congratulations GET City!
GET City youth presented their socially just businesses today at the LEAP event in Lansing for area entrepreneurs. All five teams represented extraordinarily well. Their work is what makes a difference in this world. As one of the youth, Z stated, “It’s not about making money. It’s about doing what is right. Doing what is …
Presenting at 5 minute Tops
Today I went to the ‘5 minutes tops’ to present the little free library that stephen and i made. I told everyone about why we are making them and who we are making it for. Too bad Stephen couldnt make it to the event but i hope he feels better. This event is for teens …
A social justice business approach to the Little Free Library
On Tuesday, Stephen and I worked on our 5 minute slide show that we are presenting on march 22nd 2017. In our presentation we talk about the little free stem library that we are making and what it is for and how we are planning on doing with it. For example, we used Google Maps …
Investigating Green Energy
Last week we did some investigations on green energy — energy that lets us power things without harming the earth. We learned about solar panels, hand cranks, and piezo pads. We also tried to power small paper circuits with these. We tried to power parallel circuits and series circuits. We figured out that we had …
