Seventeen-year-old Jasmine Bailey is learning how to install electrical boxes and frame windows, but what she really wants to do is study sharks as a marine biologist. “I know, it sounds crazy, and it’s the total opposite way, but I’ve always wanted to become that,” said...
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...
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...
Thanks NBC Action News for this great profile of one of the Kansas City region's rising STEM stars: ...
KC STEM Alliance and Project Lead The Way Launch Master Teachers hosted a design-thinking session during the Kauffman Foundation’s Rethink Ed gathering April 26 at the Kauffman Performing Arts Center. The day was a gathering of community, coming together to explore what education can be. KC...
When Sarah Soriano started her freshman year at Mill Valley High School she was extremely quiet and a bit reticent to speak her mind. That was before she met Bullwinkle, FRC Team 1810's moose-headed robot, which drew her into the team's booth at freshman orientation and...
Meet Ruby Rios, one of KC STEM Alliance's youngest volunteers! Back when she was wrapping up fifth grade, Ruby's dad pushed her to try one of the early app development camps offered in Kansas City. The next thing she knew she had taken every coding camp...
As a child, Dylan Smith dreamed of being an inventor. Although he later wrote off the idea in favor of the practicality of electrical engineering, his interest in exploring innovative ideas never waned....
What if it were as easy to find a hero in the STEM world as it is in the sports world? Olathe-based FIRST Robotics Team 1710 is finding out as part of its 'You Go Girl' STEM outreach program, which began more than 11 years...