FIRST Energize season is off to a strong start with FIRST LEGO League and FIRST Tech Challenge teams in the middle of their meets and qualifying tournaments! It takes many hands to make these events go smoothly, so now is a great time to volunteer. Here's...
KC STEM Alliance is now taking applications for FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition season grants. Teams in the six-county metropolitan area (Johnson and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas and Jackson, Platte, Clay, and Cass in Missouri) may apply. FTC teams must apply by September 15. FRC...
It's time to celebrate the amazing accomplishments of FIRST teams this season. To recognize teams' triumphs and victories and the FIRST community’s contributions during the extended FIRST GAME CHANGERS season, FIRST HQ is planning virtual season celebrations in a variety of formats: The FIRST LEGO LEAGUE Virtual Open International event, hosted in...
To accommodate build seasons and local and remote events, FIRST is extending the 2020-2021 event season for all programs through the end of June 2021 and moving the 2021 FIRST Championship from April 2021 to later in the year. Here’s a quick overview of changes...
UPDATED 1:15 p.m. CST 3/12/2020 Please see this announcement from FIRST president Larry Cohen: Dear friends, colleagues & partners, It is with deep disappointment that I share an update on the immediate suspension of the current FIRST season and the cancellation of both Championship events. This decision has been...
Kansas City, Mo. (January 30, 2020)–The Flaming LEGO Lizards, a team of friends from across the KC metro, took home the top honors from the FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) Regional Championship at Hy-Vee Arena on Saturday, Jan. 25. The competition included nearly 400 students in fourth through...
January 25, 2020, at Hy-Vee Arena. Click on the photo and then here to see the full photo album....
July 2018 -- Christina Chandler joins the KC STEM Alliance team as FIRST LEGO League and FIRST LEGO League Junior Partner for the Kansas City region. With more than eight years of working with all levels of FIRST in her work with the Center and Kansas...
Kebra Rios is our new volunteer coordinator for FIRST events. You may have seen Kebra around—the Rios family is part of Bishop Miege’s Stag Robotics Team 1997, where Kebra served as a marketing mentor and team parent along with her husband, Louis. Her children, Andrew...
Since 2011, the KC STEM Alliance has shaped the regional implementation of two nationally renowned STEM education programs--Project Lead The Way, a project-based learning curriculum that now reaches PreK through 12th grade students, and FIRST Robotics, a K-12 extracurricular program that uses a sports model...