Junior FIRST LEGO League (Jr.FLL) Registration Opens
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01 August, 2013
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Team Titanium of Lee’s Summit, Mo. wins Engineering Excellence Award at FIRST Championship
Press Release - April 27, 2013 10,000+ Students From Around the World Put Custom-Built Robots to the Test at 2013 FIRST® Championship Grammy Award Winning Superstar, TV Actress, Government Officials, NASA Engineers and Top Inventors Celebrate Student Achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics During Massive Robotics...
29 April, 2013
FOX 4 New: 55 teams compete in Robotics competition
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Basketball fans aren’t the only visitors in Kansas City this weekend. Fifty-five robotic teams from schools in six states are competing at Hale Arena. Winners can end up with college scholarships and six figure salaries as engineers. FOX 4′s John Pepitone explains. Watch video...
19 March, 2013
KCTV-5 News: Students compete in Ultimate Ascent robotics challenge
KCTV-5 News - Coverage of the Greater Kansas City FIRST Robotics Competition, March 15-16 at Hale Arena. Watch video...
19 March, 2013
Robotics design challenge is serious fun
March 16 By LAURA BAUER The Kansas City Star Riley Kelly leaned forward and focused on what was ahead. Definitely a little nervous, she admitted with a slight smile. But before she could even think more about that, she and a couple of teammates from Lincoln College Preparatory Academy pushed...
19 March, 2013
One of the nation’s largest robotics events will make the Ultimate Ascent on Hale Arena-Kansas City, March 15-16
Kansas City (March 8, 2013) – 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 15-16 at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition...
08 March, 2013
Rookie Team Rules Regionals
Debbie Cox is no stranger to receiving recognition for her robotics teams. Some of her former students appeared in a WILL I. AM video and stood hand in hand with President Obama at the White House Science Fair. So you can imagine her disappointment when...
27 February, 2013
Teams learn science and teamwork at KC robotics competition
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...
03 February, 2013
Robotics students code and solve, one Lego at a time
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...
12 January, 2013
FIRST® Tech Challenge officially launches in Greater Kansas City
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...
19 September, 2012