January 2016 Newsletter
Meet our new executive director, get an update on the FIRST Robotics season, learn about the new HealthTracks initiative and more in our January newsletter. Read more....
22 January, 2016
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Kansas City Girls in Tech initiative launch
New movement encourages area girls to explore opportunities in computer science through outreach, mentoring and hands-on learning Kansas City, Mo. (December 7, 2015)—In an era where new technologies are responsible for life-altering advancements in every field from medicine to entertainment, women are not well represented in...
07 December, 2015
Sparking success in STEAM Learning
Kansas City Young Audiences and KC STEM Alliance have come together to harness the power of the arts in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) learning. See what we’ve discovered so far in this video produced by KCPT. https://youtu.be/f6DSRtiDOg8 ...
03 December, 2015
November 2015 Newsletter
Find out about the 2015 FIRST LEGO League season kickoff, ecosySTEMS KC's visit to Washington, D.C and more news of STEM initiatives across the metro in this month’s newsletter. Read more....
18 November, 2015
October 2015 Newsletter
More than 40 Kansas City-area high school girls got hands on with sawing, drilling and stitching to learn how engineering and orthopedic surgery relate during a Perry Outreach Program on Oct. 3 at MCC Penn Valley Health Science Institute. Read more....
18 November, 2015
KC STEM Alliance-sponsored Perry Outreach Program gives KC girls hands-on experience in orthopedics and engineering
Kansas City, Mo. (Sept. 30, 2015)—More than 40 high school girls from around the Kansas City metro will get a firsthand look at how engineering and orthopedic surgery relate during a Perry Outreach Program from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 3, at...
05 October, 2015
National STEM spotlight shines on Kansas City
Washington, D.C. (September 1, 2015) –The STEM Funders Network (SFN) announced today that Kansas City’s ecosySTEM KC is one of the 27 communities selected to pilot the national STEM Ecosystems Initiative. This project, built on over a decade of research into successful STEM collaborations seeks to nurture and...
03 September, 2015
August 2015 Newsletter
Last week 22 middle and high girls attended our all girls app camp at the KC Engineering Zone. They learned real-world coding skills and put their ideas to the test by creating Android platform phone apps. The week culminated with the girls presenting their work...
12 August, 2015
App camp aims to guide girls toward high-tech careers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —A big push is happening to get more women into the male-dominated fields of science and technology, and a camp going on in Kansas City this weekend hopes to foster interest at an early age. The KC Engineering Zone is an app camp...
11 August, 2015
North KC Student headed to US Space & Rocket Center
A North Kansas City STEM student has won the opportunity to compete in the Reach for the Stars National Rocket Competition this October in Huntsville, Alabama. Emily Schmidtlein, who participated in North Kansas City's summer STEM camp, won the opportunity to celebrate her win at US Space...
11 August, 2015