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...
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...
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...
FIRST® is excited to announce a funding opportunity exclusively available to Rookie teams participating in the 2015 FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) season! Details about the FIRST® 2015 FRC® Rookie Team Grant: Awarded teams will receive $6,000 (restricted to registration) over the course of 2 seasons Teams will receive $4,000 in season 1...
Kansas City has been a center of engineering excellence for a century, its firms producing everything from local bridges and gathering places to power plants halfway around the world. Three of the top 25 firms in the Engineering News-Record 2014 list of top design firms are...
US FIRST Robotics – Greater Kansas City Region Posting Date: 7/7/14 The Kansas City STEM Alliance is seeking qualified individuals to support the implementation the FIRST regional robotics initiative in the Greater Kansas City area. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a national...
KC STEM Alliance is currently looking for a FIRST AmeriCorp VISTA member to serve with our current member, Malcolm Strickland, from August, 2014 – August, 2015. FIRST VISTA members work to support and assist teams, mentors, coaches and volunteers with an emphasis on securing and sustaining...
Innovative competitions push students to build both technical engineering and creative thinking skills. When high school students from across the country gather to compete in the annual robotics championship hosted by For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) it's clear they need the technical...