EXPLORER POST FIRST NIGHTER: August 28 Black & Veatch invites students and their parents to the first meeting of the Black & Veatch Explorer Post 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, at 11401 Lamar Ave. Overland Park, KS 66211. (Use the south doors.) The Post...
Catch up on July news from the greater Kansas City STEM Community here....
Christina Chandler joins the KC STEM Alliance team as FIRST LEGO League and FIRST LEGO League Junior Partner for the Kansas City region. With more than eight years of working with all levels of FIRST in her work with the Center and Kansas City Missouri School...
Kebra Rios is our new volunteer coordinator for FIRST events. You may have seen Kebra around—the Rios family is part of Bishop Miege’s Stag Robotics Team 1997, where Kebra served as a marketing mentor and team parent along with her husband, Louis. Her children, Andrew...
Since 2011, the KC STEM Alliance has shaped the regional implementation of two nationally renowned STEM education programs--Project Lead The Way, a project-based learning curriculum that now reaches PreK through 12th grade students, and FIRST Robotics, a K-12 extracurricular program that uses a sports model...
Find five fun ways to explore STEM this summer + your June update from the greater Kansas City STEM community in this month's newsletter: Read it here....
This summer, the Museum at Prairiefire will help launch a course endorsed by NASA during which kids will design and create a space glove that withstands space mission hazards like extreme cold, impact and radiation. The Museum of Science, Boston, has named the Museum at Prairiefire...
Nearly 20 students spent one of their first days of summer freedom huddled with the KC startup and business community to consider the possibilities of taking their Project Lead The Way capstone projects from academic exercise to marketable product. During the June 1 Make It REAL...
Are you still looking for a way to get some hands-on experience this summer? EPA Region 7, located in Lenexa, Kan., has some non-paid internships that will provide practical work experience working alongside EPA employees. Student schedules are flexible, so check out volunteer opportunities in...
Students interested in learning more about the possibilities of a career in engineering should check out this opportunity with Black & Veatch. On select Mondays this summer, the Overland Park firm will offer job shadowing for high school students. Participating students will go on a micogrid...