With school back in full swing, KC STEM Alliance is gearing up for a record-breaking 2013-2014 season–more FIRST teams on board, more students engaged in Project Lead The Way (PLTW) courses and more STEM events, around our region and across the nation. Read More...
KC STEM Alliance is pleased to announce the addition of two staff members, both at the ready to support KC FIRST programs and teams. As FIRST Regional Director, Laura Bauer will serve as the primary contact for FIRST programs in the Greater Kansas City metropolitan region...
KC STEM Alliance announces a forward move in venue and schedule for the Greater Kansas City Regional 2014 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) March 13-15, 2014 at Metropolitan Community College – Business and Technology Campus. This change in schedule to Week Three creates a better fit for...
230,000 children worldwide will devise innovative solutions to keep people and property safe before, during, and after a natural disaster. In the 2013/14 FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) season, children from around the world are tackling an ambitious challenge: to research natural disasters and propose solutions for...
STEM has been a hot topic in Kansas City this summer! Area students have spent the last two months inventing, building and creating. From hanging out with First Lady Michelle Obama on a Google Hangout to app camps and STEM camps, learning hands-on about the...
May 31, 2013 The Kansas City Star Burns & McDonnell will sponsor a second Battle of the Brains competition for science students this fall, Union Station officials said Friday. The first competition, in 2011, was hugely successful, drawing 560 entries from 456 teams of 2,500 individual students from...
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Kansas City, Mo. - Project Lead The Way (PLTW), the nation’s leading non-profit provider of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum and professional development to middle and high schools, announced earlier this year that approximately 50 teachers nationwide, including 18 teachers and schools from...
June 29 By MARK MORRIS The Kansas City Star Kansas City-area students got to spend time Saturday with Michelle Obama, even though the first lady was half a world away. About 40 middle- and high-schoolers gathered in a Google Fiber conference room for a globe-spanning video hangout with...
KC STEM camp students to meet First Lady via Google Fiber connection from Johannesburg, South Africa at the Fiber Space Watch now! G+Hangout @MichelleObama YouTube livestream link - http://youtu.be/SRJjSs-F8i4 #FLOTUSinKC Kansas City, Mo. (June 29, 2013): Connecting across continents -- today, 50 Kansas City middle and high school...