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...
Thanks NBC Action News for this great profile of one of the Kansas City region's rising STEM stars: ...
May 2018 - KC STEM Alliance and Project Lead The Way Launch Master Teachers hosted a design-thinking session during the Kauffman Foundation’s Rethink Ed gathering April 26 at the Kauffman Performing Arts Center. The day was a gathering of community, coming together to explore what education...
When Sarah Soriano started her freshman year at Mill Valley High School she was extremely quiet and a bit reticent to speak her mind. That was before she met Bullwinkle, FRC Team 1810's moose-headed robot, which drew her into the team's booth at freshman orientation and...
What if it were as easy to find a hero in the STEM world as it is in the sports world? Olathe-based FIRST Robotics Team 1710 is finding out as part of its 'You Go Girl' STEM outreach program, which began more than 11 years...
Drop by a family dinner with the Crance family of Lee’s Summit and the chatter will quickly turn to robotics. Bob, who has spent 35 years at Black & Veatch in mechanical engineering, and his wife, Janice, an early childhood educator turned small business owner,...
This week brings us to the pinnacle of the FIRST Robotics season in the Kansas City region as 60-plus high school-level FIRST Robotics Competition teams take the field for the regional championships at Metropolitan Community College-Business & Technology campus. As we look forward to the excitement...