DJ Patil, with venture capital firm Greylock Partners, is on a perpetual manhunt, looking for a rare breed: someone with a brain for math, finesse with computers, the eyes of an artist and more. Read more >...
Summit Technology Academy was recently selected as one of six model schools from throughout the nation to be included in PRIME (Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education), an initiative through the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation. The Lee's Summit R-7 school is the only...
Congratulations to students at Olathe North High School, who earned a $50,000 grant and the chance to see their exhibit, Unplugged, constructed in Science City in 2012. Energy powers the world, and the consumption of energy drives the Unplugged experience. Visitors will discover that all...
Michael F. Helmstetter of MRI Global discusses the challenges facing the Kansas City, Missouri School District and ways local companies can help. Read more >...
Come sit with 400+ students, teachers and Burns & McDonnell and Union Station folks, at 10 a.m, Monday, November 21, 2011, as they find out who will win the "Battle of the Brains" and receive $50,000 for their school and have a new exhibit in...
KC STEM Alliance will formally launch our new organization tonight in an after hours reception from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 at Union Station's Bank of America Grand Gallery. The reception, which will include business and civic leaders, and feature...
"The pipeline problem." That's the catch-all phrase that keeps coming up in discussions of diversity in Silicon Valley. Tech companies say they'd love to hire more women and minorities, but that too few qualified candidates are graduating with technical degrees. That leaves them choosing from...
Studies have found that roughly 40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree. That increases to as much as 60 percent when pre-medical students, who typically have the strongest SAT scores and...
In the US News and World Report (11/3) "Stem Education" blog, Mel Schiavelli, president of the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, wrote that businesses have "plenty of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math-STEM-ready to fill. Unfortunately, the supply of STEM workers isn't meeting...
In an opinion piece for U.S. News & World Report, the publication's chairman, Mortimer Zuckerman, lists some everyday items we take for granted like the Internet, mobile phones and microwave ovens and states, "all these American innovations and thousands more come to us from science,...