Forget the big talk about computer programming jobs. Leave off the tales of talent-starved tech industries, juicy salaries and perks. For 16-year-old Ruskin High School students Dennis Baleta and Harold Burgos, this moment was all about changing that tiny piece of the world currently at their fingertips. They...
Google believes information should be universally accessible. Their education and scholarship programs aim to inspire and help students become future leaders in computing and technology by breaking down the barriers that prevent them from entering these fields. If selected, scholarship recipients will each receive a $10,000 USD...
BY ROXIE HAMMILL Special to The Kansas City Star Anna Garcia is dead, that much is certain. The yellow police tape that marks off a corner of the science lab at Grandview High School is a daily reminder of that. Behind the tape, the evidence. Anna’s was a...
WHAT: FIRST® LOOK 2014 Preview WHEN: Friday, November 8, 2013 VIP Reception 4:30 – 5:15 Opening Remarks 5:15 (Dr. Don Bossi, president, FIRST®) WHERE: MCC-Business & Technology Exhibit Hall 1775 Universal Avenue, Kansas City, MO OF SPECIAL INTEREST: FIRST President, Donald E. Bossi will be in Kansas City to...
The best entrepreneurs in the world are in Kansas City, and we’re going to celebrate Nov. 13-24 with a variety of events. About Global Entrepreneurship Week Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to...
KC STEM Alliance sparked girls' interest in Engineering & Orthopedics at the Perry Initiative Workshop on October 19. Watch as 38 young women, grades 10 and up, drill, saw and suture during mock surgical procedures, working side-by-side with female STEM professionals. ...
Every day is build day at KC STEM Alliance. We are growing and expanding in every direction—increasing and improving STEM education in our schools, scaling up after school STEM programs, adding partners, multiplying sponsorships and scholarships. And at every turn, working to boost the STEM workforce...
The dinner was standard banquet fare, but dessert was very sweet indeed: a $5 million booster shot for entrepreneurship and economic development efforts at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The event was the first Annual Dinner for the four-year-old UMKC Foundation. Chancellor Leo E. Morton announced that the Ewing Marion Kauffman...
PLTW is proud to support and encourage the involvement of schools and communities INDIANAPOLIS (September 23, 2013) – Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is a proud supporter of National Manufacturing Day, held this year on Friday, October 4. The Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, International (FMA) designated this...
September 23 By JOE ROBERTSON The Kansas City Star Life forms beamed to Earth by probes on Mars? Pandemic-fighting vaccines emailed at light speed around the world? It was as if Blue Valley North High School senior Muriel Eaton was a 5-year-old girl again, wide-eyed in a universe where everything...