FTC Qualifier 2018-19
December 15, 2018 at Notre Dame De Sion High School. Click on the photo and then here to see full album....
13 June, 2019
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FLL Qualifier #1 2018-19
November 10, 2018 at Olathe Northwest High School. Click on photo and then here for the full album....
13 June, 2019
KC STEM Alliance FRC/FTC Team Season Grant Application Now Open for 2019-2020
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,...
12 June, 2019
Meet Christina Chandler: FIRST LEGO League + FLL Jr. Partner
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...
15 July, 2018
Kebra Rios joins KC STEM Alliance team to coordinate FIRST Robotics volunteers
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...
15 July, 2018
Kauffman Foundation grant supports KC STEM Alliance efforts to build STEM-ready workforce
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...
13 July, 2018
Museum at Prairie Fire to pilot space-themed engineering unit in partnership with Museum of Science, Boston
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...
13 June, 2018
Meet Chayanne – May 2018
Thanks NBC Action News for this great profile of one of the Kansas City region's rising STEM stars: ...
17 May, 2018
Center students a bright spot in Kansas City’s educational landscape
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...
16 May, 2018
KC region teams head to international FIRST Championship in Houston – April 2018
Executives and staff from MRIGlobal toast students from the Paseo Academy of the Fine and Performing Arts as they prepare for their first trip to the FIRST Championship in Houston. The team, which builds at the KC Engineering Zone, is sending four members along with...
17 April, 2018