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| A student pass by the bulletin board without a glance. |
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| Students design and create cell towers out of pasta and marshmallows. |
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| Katie Ulrich, a mechanical engineer, demonstrates how to make lip balm. |
The event, known as GEE, had been in the works for four months, and was made possible by donations from Toyota, DTE Energy, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Autoliv and General Motors.
Ann Dancy,
vice president of outreach and part of the Chrysler Institute of Engineering,
says that the GEE is held at Wayne State University because the target group is
young intercity girls, and “(it) makes no sense to bus them out to Auburn Hills,”
where the Chrysler Group LLC is based.
The free event
for Detroit Public Schools girls grades fourth through sixth featured
activities such as a fashion show geared toward learning about proper safety
gear while working in the field, making lip balm, and creating cell towers out
of pasta and marshmallows.
A hundred-and-thirty-six girls were
registered for the event, but Dancy says many trickled in throughout the day.
This was clear during the fashion show in the auditorium as students finished
lunch while DTE Energy volunteers demonstrated proper safety attire while
working in the field.
The GEE proved
to be a fun and hands-on approach to teach young girls about safety, science
and engineering. All girls left with a backpack full of school supplies and
different science experiment ideas.
This
assignment was fun at first, then became incredibly frustrating. I anticipated
taking around 75 photos while at the GEE event but walked away with close to
200. Most of the photos were from me trying to get the lighting correct. The in
vogue phrase "the struggle is real" was on repeat in my head as I
struggled to find the correct setting for the different lighting
situations.
What was even
more aggravating was trying to get the unplanned feature photo. I go into chaos
mode when I don't have a plan. I am limited to one day a week when I am able to
wander around but with midterms and finishing projects before spring break I
had a hard time finding the time to go out and get photos.
I was walking through State Hall and saw how many people were passing by the board without even looking at it and I know if it was the same scene 15 years ago people would be stopping to check what events were happening around campus.
In my New Media Theory class, we've discussed the dying forms of media, and watching the old stare longing at people with the new "it" media passing them by. I purposefully was trying to make that discussion come alive when I took the picture in front of the bulletin board because I wanted you to see the light from the cell phone screen and the clear motion of someone passing by the stationary board.
This whole assignment made me realize taking quality feature photos is so much more difficult than I even imagined.
I was walking through State Hall and saw how many people were passing by the board without even looking at it and I know if it was the same scene 15 years ago people would be stopping to check what events were happening around campus.
In my New Media Theory class, we've discussed the dying forms of media, and watching the old stare longing at people with the new "it" media passing them by. I purposefully was trying to make that discussion come alive when I took the picture in front of the bulletin board because I wanted you to see the light from the cell phone screen and the clear motion of someone passing by the stationary board.
This whole assignment made me realize taking quality feature photos is so much more difficult than I even imagined.
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