FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Melissa Ashcraft KC STEM Alliance 816-392-8682 ashcraftme@kcstem.org Announcing March Robot Madness. It’s a whole new ball game at the Greater Kansas City Regional FIRST® Robotics Competition March 13 -15, 2014 Kansas City, Mo. (March 6, 2014) See action-packed, fast-paced matches between student-operated robots at the Greater Kansas City Regional...
he KC STEM Alliance is pleased to announce that grant funds are available to support a limited number of STEM summer enrichment programs targeting middle and high school students in the KC metro region. Grant requests may be made up to $2500 per program and are intended...
Standing on City Stage at Union Station, Maria Flynn, president and CEO of Orbis Biosciences, had an important question for the audience in front of her. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” A buzz filled the room as seventh- and eighth-grade girls —...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A number of local companies are joining forces to inspire students. Specifically, they want to inspire high school girls who want to be engineers. The Overland Park Convention Center was full of aspiring engineers on Friday. “I take a lot of engineering...
Women constitute 48 percent of the U.S. workforce but hold just 24 percent of the U.S. jobs in STEM. Even worse, only 1 out of every 10 STEM professionals is a minority woman. Women make up only 10 percent of U.S. engineers. We must change...
Partnership Targets PLTW Program Expansion in Urban Districts INDIANAPOLIS (Feb. 18, 2014) – Project Lead The Way (PLTW) announced Tuesday a $6 million national partnership with Lockheed Martin to expand PLTW’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs in select U.S. urban school districts. The specific urban...
Twenty-five teams from Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and Arkansas competed in Kansas City's FIRST® Tech Challenge on February 1st hosted by UMKC, School of Computing & Engineering and KC STEM Alliance. Qualifying teams now advance to the FIRST® Tech Challenge Missouri Championship on March 1st at Missouri University...
Red Bridge Elementary fourth grader KayShawn Whitworth wants to be both a scientist and an inventor when he grows up. “Scientists, to me, connect to inventing things,” Whitworth said. “If I was just a scientist I would be studying things and then, out of nowhere: pop!...
Nearly 500 teens will contend for best robot Kansas City, MO – Students from the Kansas City region and beyond will put their robots to the test during the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) qualifying tournament on Saturday, Feb. 1 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. UMKC’s School...
KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - Forty-one teams, 400 kids and thousands of Legos filled Union Station Saturday.The robot goes through tests on the field. It has to do with rescuing scenarios," explained Trinity Sconce, an eighth grader at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy. Trinity had to be...