How do you improve the way someone learns? See 40 solutions from more than 400 4th – 8th graders @ Union Station Saturday, January 17 They were born in a Digital Age where information is literally at their fingertips. But that’s not the same as learning. What do they...
OLATHE, KS (KCTV) - Future mathematicians, scientists and astronauts were in the metro Saturday to kick off a robotics competition. Fifty-six area high school teams, coaches and mentors kicked off the 2015 FIRST Robotics season with a NASA televised game reveal from FIRST headquarters in Manchester, NH. Students were able to...
OLATHE, Kan. – School starts back up for most next week, but some students are already kicking off 2015 with engineering, communications, and business skills. It’s all part of the kickoff for the 2015 FIRST Robotics season. High school tech enthusiasts around the world will set...
Imagine flying regionally from Kansas City to, let’s say, Little Rock, Ark., in a pod picked up by an airplane like a hawk in flight clutching an egg, and then deposited similarly at your destination. That’s pretty much the vision of an undergraduate team of University...
Stuart Jackson was on a mission. For years, the Overland Park father had searched for a way to help his son find relief from the stress and anxiety often experienced by children with autism. Like many of those children, Joshua could be soothed through deep touch...
At the Google Fiber space on State Line Road Tuesday morning, students from several local schools sat at laptops, trying to get the character Elsa from the movie “Frozen” to ice skate in a certain pattern. It looked like they were playing a computer game,...
Last week thousands of KC metro area students participated in Hour of Code – a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code. Read More...
A recent program by the Mid-America Regional Council and the Lumina Foundation opened some eyes on the mismatch between Kansas City’s workforce needs and the human resource needs of business and industry. The good news, according to research presented at the Greater Kansas City Workforce Summit,...
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – KC STEM Alliance announced 2014-2015 program grants totaling $63,750.00 to 23 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) and FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) teams in the 5 county Kansas City region. (Johnson and Wyandotte in Kansas; and Clay, Jackson, and Platte in Missouri.) Recipients include...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An international push to get young kids interested in writing computer code is having an impact on local kids. Student took part in a one hour introduction to computer science called the "Hour of Code" Tuesday at Google Fiber in Westport. The non-profit...
