Register for FLY’s Summer Camps
Warm weather, late sunsets, loooong school-free days; summer’s around the corner - need something for the kids to do? Enter FLY’s trio of timely and topnotch summer camps! For three weeks this summer the FLY Children’s Art Center will become a series of fantastic...
read moreCreating With a Cause: A week as a Toy Maker
Tick. Tick. Tick. You have three minutes to radically change the way we give and receive gifts. Go! Sounds hard, right? Maybe for an adult. NASA has a test that measures innovative potential - when they administered the test to 1,600 five-year-olds, 98% had scores...
read moreTake Heart FLY Friends! You’re Invited…
The heart is a muscle. It needs exercise. Let's TAKE HEART together. Community and creativity are unstoppable. Let's celebrate passion and taking action! Let's make valentines to the things and people that are important to us. Let's learn — and keep learning. Let's...
read moreYCS @Work Intern: My Story and History Ypsilanti
My project researching pictures long ago tied into what my art class at Ypsilanti High School was doing in a way. After the election, a lot of emotions were going threw my head I was scared, disappointed and angry with the older generation. I wasn’t the only one feeling overwhelmed about this. Ms. Settles could tell how we were feeling because she felt the same way. She helped so many kids by just giving them a piece of paper and letting the students put their emotions on it. A lot students felt like there was some thing more we could do. So thus the silent peace march began. [Edited for summary]
read moreOur Mobile Creativity Lab Has Begun!
This week students kicked off their adventures with a podcast; exploring the halls of their school – recording the shuffling feet, closing lockers, and laughter that embodies their academic experience.
read moreUntied-United: Interconnected Ypsilanti
FLY's weekend was inspiring and magical. We made a web of interconnectedness at DIYpsi, which we titled "Untied-United." It's now hanging on our wall but the process was interactive and thoughtful. About 100 visitors contributed to the yarn-bomb over the two day...
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