Maker Faire KC takes place at Union Station on June 22 and 23, 2019. Over 20 FIRST teams participate by demonstrating their robotics. If your team would like to demonstrate, please contact Laura Bauer at bauerlb@kcstem.org....
January 25, 2019 at Metropolitan Community College - Business & Technology. Click on the photo and then here to see the full photo album....
December 15, 2018 at Notre Dame De Sion High School. Click on the photo and then here to see full album....
November 10, 2018 at Olathe Northwest High School. Click on photo and then here for the full album....
KC STEM Alliance has grants available for FRC and FTC teams in the 6 county area (Johnson and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas and Jackson, Platte, Clay, and Cass in Missouri). Grants are awarded to teams in underserved areas, younger teams and teams new to fundraising,...
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...
This summer, the Museum at Prairiefire will help launch a course endorsed by NASA during which kids will design and create a space glove that withstands space mission hazards like extreme cold, impact and radiation. The Museum of Science, Boston, has named the Museum at Prairiefire...
Thanks NBC Action News for this great profile of one of the Kansas City region's rising STEM stars: ...