A computer support firm and a school adminstration office have been signed as the building’s newest tenants. By KEVIN COLLISON The Kansas City Star Union Station has leased 100 percent of its available office space after signing two tenants this week, culminating a steady financial comeback from the...
By JOE ROBERTSON The Kansas City Star The main course on the menu of innovations Hunter Browning is mounting at the age of 18 comes with large helpings of quantum mechanics and nuclear physics. Seven provisional patents protect the enticing technology that has spawned two companies of his...
Biggest FIRST® Championship Ever Features NBA Hall of Famer, Reigning World Series Champion, Pop Superstar, Celebrity Chef, Inventors, and Government Officials Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, John Jay, will.i.am, Chef Homaro Cantu, Dean Kamen, and Congressman Chaka Fattah Root for Robotics Matches as 12,000 Students from 32 Countries and Their...
Pennsylvania Congressman Fattah backs ‘AIM’ and Targets Robotics Programs in 3,000 Boys & Girls Clubs by 2015 ST. LOUIS and MANCHESTER, N.H., April 28, 2012 — FIRST ® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a not-for-profit organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire...
Partnership supports major industries in Kansas City An innovative new partnership between Rockhurst University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City will allow students enrolled at Rockhurst to receive an engineering or information technology degree. The Engineering, Computing and Information Technology program is now accepting applications for...
By JOE ROBERTSON The Kansas City Star [gallery link="file"] The student creativity that Kansas City’s engineering economy has craved for years began, it seems, with a universal kick-start: “I hate it when…” It’s the imagination-starter, scrawled in student notebooks, that spawned many of the machines and gadgets that 100 area...
“Eureka Fest 2012 and Grant Opportunity for schools: Lemelson-MIT offers $10,000 to schools through Excite Awards: InvenTeam grants.” Deadline April 6th, 2012. Click here for details....
By MARÁ ROSE WILLIAMS The Kansas City Star Team Titanium from Lee’s Summit West High School was feeling pretty confident after nine rounds in this year’s FIRST Robotics Regional Competition in Kansas City on Saturday afternoon. With 20 sponsors backing the students and two mechanical engineers and a...
The Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals (MASSP) has selected Dan Anderson, principal at Blue Springs Freshman Center, as the 2012 Missouri High School Principal of the Year. MASSP will officially present the award during the annual MASSP Spring Conference at the Lodge of Four...
Kansas City (February 27, 2012) – 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 2-3 at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition...