March 16 By LAURA BAUER The Kansas City Star They tackled cancer, Alzheimer’s and the distribution of Lyme disease in Johnson County. Research and experiments took months. But that, along with their love of science and the chance to put formulas and all the knowledge from their teachers to...
This is the latest edition of the PLTW Kansas City News + Updates bulletin. Please forward to PLTW and STEM teachers, counselors and students in your district. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT National PLTW is proud to announce that Robin Schott has been named the new Vice President - West Central...
Here at the KC STEM Alliance we are privileged to spend many of our workdays surrounded by talented students, educators, mentors… and robots. We wrapped up the season for two robotics programs FIRST LEGO League for Grades 4-8 and FIRST TECH Challenge for Grades 7-12,...
Kansas City (March 8, 2013) – High school students from metro Kansas City schools and across the Midwest will see their intense work designing and building an original robot culminate March 15-16 at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition...
Debbie Cox is no stranger to receiving recognition for her robotics teams. Some of her former students appeared in a WILL I. AM video and stood hand in hand with President Obama at the White House Science Fair. So you can imagine her disappointment when...
By JOE ROBERTSON The Kansas City Star Posted on Sun, Feb. 03, 2013 Their robots were temperamental. Unpredictable. Figuring out just what teenagers from all around Missouri and beyond were doing Sunday to try to tame their hotwired machines meant a lot of talking while walking. The rounds of competition...
By RICK MONTGOMERY The Kansas City Star Posted on Sat, Jan. 12, 2013 For hundreds of area pupils who have been spending evenings and weekends in meetings, hovering over Legos and laptops, Saturday was the big test. “Nobody has the wheels we have,” boasted Marcus Richardson, a seventh-grader at...
By Ryne Dittmer The Kearney Courier In Gateway to Technology, a new class at Kearney Middle School, students are given the opportunity to work with programs and concepts real engineers use on a daily basis. The class, which operates under the umbrella of the high school program Project...
The long-running volunteer educational event is an experiment worth repeating. By LEE HILL KAVANAUGH The Kansas City Star Soliana Kahassai’s science project idea came to her because she’s a dancer. The 14-year-old Liberty Junior High student wants to know whether all that stretching really does help a person kick...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 19, 2012 KC STEM Alliance partners with national organization to bring hands-on, real world experience to increase self-confidence in young women’s abilities in science and engineering National Perry Initiative to bring Anatomical Models, Real Surgical Hardware and Leading Industry Healthcare Experts for Workshop...