Hello!
Here at the KC STEM Alliance we are privileged to spend many of our workdays surrounded by talented students, educators, mentors… and robots. We wrapped up the season for two robotics programs FIRST LEGO League for Grades 4-8 and FIRST TECH Challenge for Grades 7-12, and are now looking forward to the Seventh Annual Greater Kansas City Regional FIRST Robotics Competition, March 14-16 at Hale Arena, Grades 9-12.
In this edition, learn more about upcoming events, like the Project Lead the Way Senior Showcase in April at Union Station and learn how you can take a Special Guest tour of the FIRST Robotics Competition at Hale Arena in March!
We are hopeful that more students in the Kansas City region get involved in STEM at an early age, and create their own opportunity, like Sunita Gupta (pictured right), Design Certification Engineer at Garmin since 2008. Sunita is spotlighted as KC STEM Alliance's Create Your Own Opportunity campaign through STEM.
Laura Loyacono
Director
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Spotlight: FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC)
Rookie Team Rules Regionals
Van Horn High School Team Qualifies for State Championship
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 she discovered last August that few of her new science students were participating with the Independence School District’s high school robotics team.
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Upcoming Events
Project Lead the Way Senior Showcase
Mark your calendar for the second annual Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Senior Showcase scheduled for Thurs., April 18, 2013 at Union Station. PLTW students taking Engineering Design Development and Biomedical Innovations or completing senior capstone projects in PLTW courses are invited to showcase their projects and celebrate the culmination of their PLTW coursework.
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In the News
Teams learn science and teamwork at KC robotics competition
By JOE ROBERTSON
The Kansas City Star
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 at the FIRST Tech Challenge at the University of Missouri-Kansas City came at the robotics teams relentlessly, and problems and more problems were demanding solutions. Little time to chat.
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In the News
Robotics students code and solve, one Lego at a time
By RICK MONTGOMERY
The Kansas City Star
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 Benjamin Banneker Charter Academy of Technology. “When we program the robot to turn, it’s very precise.”
About 20 Banneker kids and 40 squads of robotics students from other schools filled Union Station for the First Lego League Regional Championship
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