Innovative competitions push students to build both technical engineering and creative thinking skills. When high school students from across the country gather to compete in the annual robotics championship hosted by For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) it's clear they need the technical...
Her mind is made up. Riya Naik is going to continue her study of the brain. "From my first high school biomedical science course, the nervous system of the body, and the brain specifically, just fascinated me,” explained Naik. “The summer before my senior year,...
Seven-year-old Jordan Lisle, a second grader, joined his family at a packed after-hours school event last month aimed at inspiring a new interest: computer programming. “I’m a little afraid he’s falling behind,” his mother, Wendy Lisle, said, explaining why they had signed up for the class...
This is the way 18-year-old Nigerian immigrant Cynthia Odu sees her world: Really, what are the odds for any of us? Who we are. Where we are. All of us defying a random universe. When the Kansas City teenager was staring down at one of the essay questions...
Some high schools are offering students a chance to take college courses at the same time – and start earning a STEM degree earlier. Faced with meeting a demand for workers with science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills, a growing number of high schools and colleges...
High school seniors Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson have spent a lot of time thinking about ketchup. As students in the Project Lead the Way program at North Liberty High School, Richards and Thompson have researched and developed a bottle cap that prevents that first squirt of ketchup...
LIBERTY, Mo. — It all started with the phrase, “It really bugs me when…” That led two Liberty high school students to come up with a solution to a better ketchup cap. Two Liberty North High School seniors said they are taking your condiments experience to...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ingenuity and creativity were celebrated by students on Tuesday at Kansas City’s Union Station. 250 high school seniors showcased their engineering prototypes and bio-medical research projects as part of Project: Lead the Way. Their projects are solutions to real-world problems, and students say...
DR. VINCE BERTRAM WILL SPEAK INTERNATIONALLY AS AN EXPERT ON STEM EDUCATION; FIRST ASSIGNMENT IN SOUTH KOREA APRIL 7-11 INDIANAPOLIS (April 2, 2014) – Project Lead The Way President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Vince Bertram has been chosen by the U.S. Department of State as the STEM...
Meet hundreds of locally grown innovators and creators from thirteen metro area school districts, showcasing biomedical science and engineering prototypes and projects at the 2014 PLTW Senior Showcase. Read More...