KC STEM Alliance Awards $10,000 in scholarships and the chance to test project marketability in ‘Make It REAL’ Workshop on June 3 Kansas City, MO (April 20, 2016)—More than 300 students filled Union Station’s Sprint Festival Plaza with innovative solutions to problems large and small during...
Teams from Kansas City, Lee’s Summit, Liberty, Independence and Warrensburg Advance to World Championships in St. Louis Next Month Kansas City, MO (March 14, 2016)--Attended by thousands of fans, families, educators and industry leaders, the Kansas City Regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics...
Kansas City, MO (Jan. 22, 2016)--Martha McCabe has been named Executive Director of the KC STEM Alliance, a collaborative network of educators, businesses and related organizations working together to inspire interest in science, technology, engineering and math. Since the organization launched in 2011 with funding from...
Elementary and middle school students solve real-life environmental problems with research, ingenuity, LEGO bricks and robots Kansas City, MO (January 11, 2016)—More than 400 students in fourth through eighth grades will come together Saturday, Jan. 16, to compete in the FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) Regional Championship at...
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...
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...
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...
KANSAS CITY, Mo – Twenty-five local middle school students will spend a few days this summer building motors, creating electricity and designing wind turbines – all in the name of energy. Driven by a need for more job-ready candidates in power and energy fields, KCP&L, the...
Kansas City, Mo. (June 10, 2015) – A group of recent high school graduates from the Kansas City area will receive one-on-one mentoring from local business professionals about the marketability of their award-winning engineering ideas at a workshop on Thursday, June 11, 2015 at the KC Engineering Zone hosted...