Alright I'm here with Ty Flemming with
Science Genius Rap battles. We were both
in the same course last year. You're a teacher
as well right?
Yeah so I'm an urban arts instructor.
But Ty has taken it to
the next level he's got a couple courses
where students have created some pretty
awesome stuff and he's got some stories to tell.
Yes!
So we were able to bring Science Genius
Rap Battles to Calgary. We are fortunate
enough to have Chris Emdin come here
to put on a workshop that's what we met
for the first time
and we're able to take them to schools
in Calgary and be able to teach complex
Science curriculum through Hip-Hop what
seemingly it's two different worlds were
able to blend those two things together
beautiful things come from the two polar
opposites coming together in a harmonious
way and we were able to have youth that
necessarily didn't like science but they
LOVE to Rap so we gave them something to
rap about and gave them the ability to
like dig deeper into the science
curriculum so they could grab metaphors
they could grab different rhyme schemes
and through this rhythmic learning it
sticks to the brain better. We had the
opposite side of the spectrum of kids
who love science the teachers almost ran
out of things to teach them but they had
never rapped don't even listen to
hip-hop music and we were able to spend
time with them mentor them show them how
to rap show them mic control, stage
presence and we had both compete at the
National Music Center.
Wow were you expecting them to be as engaged as they were?
You kind of look a little bit different your
hair's kind of crazy your freestyle
rapping you kind of get a lot more
interest just based off of that and when
we can take that interest and actually
put intelligent knowledge to it and
be able to combine that into the Youth's
head and watch where a...
watch where it goes and watch how it grows is fascinating
So they spend a lot of
extra time kind of researching and
making sure that they understood what
was going on.
So they wanted to dig
deeper into the science curriculum to
find more rhymes find more things that
they could rhyme with and things like
that give them more material basically
to play with
If you want law then the Third Law's in store.
See every force has an opposite force. Every action has an equal plus opposite reaction
The sum of all objects at best is zero,
there are some objects who are relaxin'
