By JOE ROBERTSON The Kansas City Star Posted on Sun, Feb. 03, 2013 Their robots were temperamental. Unpredictable. Figuring out just what teenagers from all around Missouri and beyond were doing Sunday to try to tame their hotwired machines meant a lot of talking while walking. The rounds of competition...
By RICK MONTGOMERY The Kansas City Star Posted on Sat, Jan. 12, 2013 For hundreds of area pupils who have been spending evenings and weekends in meetings, hovering over Legos and laptops, Saturday was the big test. “Nobody has the wheels we have,” boasted Marcus Richardson, a seventh-grader at...
FIRST Tech Challenge, one of US FIRST’s four robotics programs, will join FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Jr. LEGO League, and FIRST Robotics Competition as official programs in Greater Kansas City. After hosting the regional FIRST LEGO League (FLL) tournaments and championship for students in grades...
Can FIRST® LEGO® League teams improve the quality of life for seniors by helping them continue to be independent, engaged, and connected in their communities? The FLL Challenge has 3 parts - the Robot Game, the Project, and the Core Values. The Robot Game and Project are...
Biggest FIRST® Championship Ever Features NBA Hall of Famer, Reigning World Series Champion, Pop Superstar, Celebrity Chef, Inventors, and Government Officials Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, John Jay, will.i.am, Chef Homaro Cantu, Dean Kamen, and Congressman Chaka Fattah Root for Robotics Matches as 12,000 Students from 32 Countries and Their...
Pennsylvania Congressman Fattah backs ‘AIM’ and Targets Robotics Programs in 3,000 Boys & Girls Clubs by 2015 ST. LOUIS and MANCHESTER, N.H., April 28, 2012 — FIRST ® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a not-for-profit organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire...
By MARÁ ROSE WILLIAMS The Kansas City Star Team Titanium from Lee’s Summit West High School was feeling pretty confident after nine rounds in this year’s FIRST Robotics Regional Competition in Kansas City on Saturday afternoon. With 20 sponsors backing the students and two mechanical engineers and a...
Kansas City (February 27, 2012) – High school students from metro Kansas City schools and across the Midwest will see their intense work designing and building an original robot culminate March 2-3 at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition...
The Kansas City sixth-graders had already enjoyed a rich wave of scientific discovery — “magical,” their teacher said. And that was before Hollywood called. That was before shooting commercial spots in L.A. Before hanging out and rapping with pop music star will.i.am. Before the trip to...
One of the largest annual robotics tournaments in the Midwest came to Kansas City on Saturday, Jan. 14 as Time Warner Cable and KC STEM Alliance presented the FIRST LEGO League Regional Championship at Union Station. The event featured 35 teams that comprised of 350...