Watch and Analyze these Public Service Announcements. Complete the handout you received in your g-mail inbox.

1. Eco Spot: Sky is Falling

2. Repower America

3. I'm ready for Green Jobs Now!


4. Clean Coal Myth

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Check out the President's Environmental Youth Award!

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more pictures from our visit to Sen. Obama's Energy Speech

Here are the guys standing up in the back row! They got alot of attention, both from CBS and Obama-TV!



Carmen and Chandler awaiting Sen. Obama's appearance!




Phylllis and jayla... phyllis used her time waiting texting my mom about the merts of Obama's energy plan!

GET-Citians see Obama present his energy policy

Thanks to the hard work and sheer tenacity of Angie and Shari who queued up for tickets from the wee hours of Saturday morning, a select group of GET-Citians got to see Obama in person, on his 47th brithday, at the Lansing Center on August 4th, 2008. We got to hear Mr. Obama talk about how he would kick off his energy policy by focusing on creating green collar jobs and fuel efficient and alternative cars in Michigan! Here are some pictures of the GET Citians at the event, and the pictures they took of the Democratic Presidential Candidate.

Here's a picture of all of us waiting in line to get into Lansing Center. Everyone is all smiles and really excited at the prospect of seeing Mr. Obama.


Below is a picture of Laddarius and Chris posing inside Lansing Center.



Laddarius, Chris, Jeffrey & Trey were interviewed by the TV station about their thoughts on seeing Mr. Obama and what they think of his energy policy.


Some pictures of Mr. Obama delivering his speech taken by the GET-Citians.

Carbon Footprint of Strawberry Jam

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Our Trip to Erickson Hall with the Energy Team! June 25 & 30 2008

Jeffery is telling us about local and non local strawberries. He said non local strawberries uses more energy.

Chloe was calculating her carbon footprint. She  made a graph showing 4 kids carbon footprints. The smaller the carbon footprint the better.

getcity june 30 08

This is a picture of efosa working on his project












This is a picture of jeffery working hard on the computer











This is alex working hard on his powerpoint or slide show












This chandler and mikayla working on their powerpoint















This is jeffery and cloe getting help from angie
















This is angie helping alex with his powerpoint so he understands what to do.

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show us the world tall guy.

mark showing us the world.

Making Corn Bread

This is a picture of them putting the milk in the measuring cup













This is a picture of them putting the mix in the bowl
















on this picture is this is mikayla and shaquel
working on their surveys for getcity

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This is a picture of the cornbread after they they got done cooking it

intro of boss doss

hello  my name is d'ashia doss also known as boss doss. iam the female teacher helper of get city.   iam 13 years old. i stay in lansing, Mi. i started get city when i was 12 years old and have been here ever since. i go to plesant view magnet school for about 3 years. i found out about Getcity when i came to the Boys and Girls Club. i been coming here since i was 9 years old it really fun. and i have enjoyed my stay at Getcity. BYEEEEE!!!!

introducing chris mcabee

my name is chris mcabee and i am going to the 9th grade and i am 14 years old. i am also going to this thing called michigan tech to learn more about engineering and stuff like that and my favorite sport is basketball i am also about to play for everett basket ball freshman. my goal is to get good grades this year and stay on task so i can be able to play basketball and also achieve my goal.

How far did your food travel???

Cornbread Exit Survey

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Cornbread Exit Survey

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Session Two! (Woo hoo!)

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Welcome to GET City Summer 08!!

We have new teachers this summer - welcome Mark and Hayat! We want to get started with....you guessed it.... another survey!!

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GET City End of Year SURVEY and Celebration

hi everyone:

here is the final survey of the year!

FINAL SURVEY!

See you this summer!!

Get Citians: Show off your knowledge!!

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Earth Day 2008

This is a photo journal showing how hard the GET Citians worked to prepare for Earth Day 2008 where the GET Citians were invited by Mayor Benero to set up an exhibition at City Hall to celebrate earth day in Lansing.









The Get city earth day mural was painted by many talented artists who worked hard for over 4 hours to create their masterpiece. Mayor Bernero commended the artists for their beautiful work!

The photography display team also created eye catching educational pieces on the energy crisis.



This picture on the below shows the GET city step team practicing their "GET City roll call" step and cheer. They really know how to shake it!!



Here's one of the educational posters created by our photography display team!

The GET Citians on stage at the earth day celebration telling the audience about the GET city program and introducing our Step team and PSAs.


Here's GET- citian Phyllis, surveying a community member about her thoughts on global warming and the energy crisis.











GET-citians Will & Tray being interviewed by a reporter from the LSJ about their thoughts on earth day and green issues.


Every participant also got a free reusable grocery bag, and recycled pencils made from old denim and old money. All in all the GET citians had a very good time!

What do you think people know about the environment?

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Jobs! April 1, 2008 - Survey

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Editorial Group - Information

Find out about what kinds of bills the Michigan Legislature is trying to pass related to energy issues.


Find out how your state representative is going to vote on energy issues!


Find out how your state senator is going to vote on energy related issues!

Today's Survey - March 25, 2008

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GET city earth day MURAL

Greetings GET citian mural artists! Your challenge for EARTH DAY 08 is to create a beautiful mural that will tell viewers a story of GET city. Your mural should highlight what GET city is about, who GET citians are as well as what we are exploring in GET city.

Here is an example of a beautiful mural.




Click on this URL to check out more examples of outstanding murals. Then brainstorm and sketch out how you would want the GET city mural to look like.

http://www.pbase.com/george_v/urban_murals

Earth Day Celebration (Part II)

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Earth Day is Coming!!!

On April 22, we will present our GET City work at Earth Day! Here are a few questions to get you thinking about what we might do and how we might do it!

GET City and Earth Day


But wait, there is more...

Do you want a new iPod mp3 player? One that says, "Get green! GET City!"???? Well, here is your chance.... We thought you could have done ALOT more with your websites. In fact, we did not think that any of your websites were quite done enough to go live on our website. So, we are going to give you a little more time to work on your website. We will have a panel that will judge the websites (younger group and older group) and the winners will receive a new ipod mp3 player.

Check out these energy saving games! Which do you like the best?

Stop the Guzzler

Energy Hog

Ollie's Energy Saving Game

How Energy Efficient Are You?

Help use decide which games to include on the Get City Website.  Click here

FIeldtrip to the Erickson Power Plant

On the 25th of January, we went to visit the Erickson Power Plant to learn more about how electricity is produced through burning coal. Here are some pictures of us exploring the power plant, and some interesting things that we learned!

We started off with a brief introduction given by a staff member of the plant. Then we all got hard hats to wear because you cannot go ANYWHERE in the plant without a hard hat! It's a safety rule.


We looked mighty fine in our hard hats! Take a look at Kaylin & Jeffrey!!


We then went for a tour of the power plant, here's what our journey looked like.

We looked at the massive filtration systems that are really noisy. We had to listen very carefully.



Here we are standing in the "Hazardous Chemicals" zone. It was very cool and we were very safe because we had all the safety equipment: hard hats and goggles!


There are 9 floors to the plant. We enthusiastically climbed up FOUR floors...




We then had several views of the INSIDE the furnace, which was really hot!!

Finally we went to the control room where we learned that many things need to work together in harmony for the power plant to run effectively. We were also very happy to learn that the Erickson Power Plant is a coal burning plant that has won awards for being "clean burning" - they take care to release fewer pollutants into the air.

Go GREEN! Go Lansing! Go Get City!!

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