How do you get fifth and sixth graders to see a connection between what they're doing in school and their future careers? Talk to them about Walt Disney. "As a sixth grader, he was sketching mice and ducks in his art class," Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon told...
(excerpt from 1/21/15 State of the State address) And once again, I am proposing record funding for K-12 education … with an additional $150 million for our local public schools. That means more technology in classrooms ...
Are we an innovation hub? Not yet, but the idea isn’t as wild as it might sound at first. Kansas City has been a lot of hubs over the years: cattle hub, railroad hub, greeting card hub, college hoops hub. And now … tech hub? We’re not there...
Forty teams participate in sold-out event Close to 500 students from the Kansas City region will put their robots to the test during the FIRST TECH Challenge (FTC) qualifying tournament on Saturday, Jan. 24 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering will...
Forty teams of Lego robot builders ages nine to 14 filled the Sprint Festival Plaza at Union Station on Saturday to compete for the FIRST Lego League regional title. See a full photo gallery here by Mingle: Your Kansas City in Pictures....
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City's first LEGO League World Class Challenge was held Saturday at Union Station. Fifty metro area teams used the building blocks to solve problems, like how to get rid of old electronic devices. The fourth- to eighth-grade students created robots which had...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Some of the brightest young minds in Kansas City put their brain power to the test competing at “The Lego League World Class Challenge.” On Saturday, 40 teams of students, in grades forth through eighth from area schools, used Legos to compete...
The robotics squad at Our Lady of the Presentation School will be well represented at the FIRST Lego League championships this weekend at Union Station in Kansas City. The Lee’s Summit-based Catholic school had three teams in the fifth, sixth and eighth grades qualify for the...
2014 was a year of major growth for KC STEM Alliance, its programs and initiatives. Thanks to the continued contributions and efforts of our partners, mentors and volunteers – a record number of KC metro area students are participating in Project Lead the Way courses, the...
Diana Hess wanted to be a veterinarian. “For the longest time, up until I was 16, I was determined to go to vet school,” Hess said. “But the teachers that I had and the schools that I went to never really encouraged me to embrace math...
