Startup Snapshot: Red Dirt
At first Red Dirt sounds like every other startup–a team of two taking on the big names in their industry by creating their own version of a product. But what makes them different is how they are doing just that, and why.
Reflecting on Christmases Past: The Aluminum Tree at the Johnson County Museum
Lindsey Foat – The Hale Center for Journalism Walking into the 1950s All-Electric House is a sensory experience somewhere between visiting your grandparents’ house and a virtual time warp. Around the holidays, that nostalgia factor goes into over-drive when the Johnson County Museum staff erects a six-foot aluminum Christmas tree – complete with a rotating…
This Week in Entrepreneurship
The world of entrepreneurship is always evolving, and it’s easy to miss some things. This week, I scavenged through all of the news and headlines to find where the most captivating stories were hidden, to give them to you in an easily digestible way. Here are some of the top headlines in entrepreneurship this week:…
With GED Changes Missouri and Kansas Choose Different Paths
Lindsey Foat – The Hale Center for Journalism For the past 70 years, the G.E.D. test has given over 18 million people a second chance at a high school diploma. The test students take to gain their high school equivalency will be determined by the state in which they live beginning in January. While Kansas…
Startup Snapshot: Sock 101
While most entrepreneurs have ventured into the world of technology, software and apps, Sock 101 has been making socks. To be clear, they have been doing more than just that – they are designing, manufacturing, selling, and shipping socks at a time when many startups deal in the digital realm.
Kansas City hosts Mayors from Around the Nation for Entrepreneurship Conference
Kyle Geary | Kansas City, MO–Mayors from around the country gathered under one roof Wednesday to discuss the hot topic of entrepreneurship. The Mayors Conference on Entrepreneurship, held at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, featured seven different speakers who covered everything from art to economics. It also hosted two roundtable discussions, where panels of mayors…
Get Behind The Ring: A Clash at the Kauffman Foundation
Kyle Geary | Kansas City, MO – If you stopped by the Kauffman Foundation Monday evening, you may have thought you were about to witness a championship boxing match – and you would be, at least partially, correct. There was a “clash” at the Kauffman Foundation, but instead of punches being thrown, pitches were. The…
Missouri Innovation Campus Looked to as National Model for Higher Ed
Kansas City, Mo. – Assistant Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education James Shelton said that higher education suffers from two major issues, lagging outcomes and increasing costs, in his keynote speech at the first National Convening on Higher Education Innovation. “Here in this room, we have heard descriptions of not only kids completing…
Local Principal has Dedicated 48 Years and Counting to KCMO School District
Kansas City, Mo. – When Jessie Kirksey started teaching first grade at Longfellow Elementary School in 1966, she couldn’t imagine she would spend the rest of her career in education, and she was bowled over by those who spent more than 10 years teaching. Now in her forty-eighth year as an educator, Dr. Kirksey is…
Fate of Medical Research tax decided today
Todd Feeback | KCPT News The fate of the 20-year, 1/2 cent sales that is on the ballot in Jackson County, Missouri, to fund translational medical research will be decided today. Proceeds of the tax would go to UMKC, St. Luke’s and Children’s Mercy hospitals with a small percentage going to the Metropolitan Community Colleges….
Get In The Ring with Global Entrepreneurship Week
The Kauffman Foundation posted this video on YouTube about Global Entrepreneurship Week
Local high school athletes may be at greater risk than college players
High school athletes may have a higher risk of getting a concussion than college players. That’s the conclusion of a joint report released today by The Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. A panel of medical experts found that concussion rates were higher in high school-aged athletes who played football, baseball, men’s soccer…
28th annual Entrepreneur of the Year awards held at UMKC Bloch School
Kyle Geary | Kansas City, MO –The 28th annual Entrepreneur of the Year award ceremony was held Monday, October 21, at the Bloch executive hall for Entrepreneurship and Innovation on the University of Missouri–Kansas City campus. The ceremony serves as a fundraiser for UMKC and the Bloch school. There were four honorees this year. The…
Ninjas of the Drill: STEM Outreach Stokes Girls' Interest in Engineering and Orthopedics
Kansas City, Mo. – When Dr. Jenni Buckley demonstrates how to fix a broken femur bone with an external fixator and power tools for a group of high school girls, she tells them that they too can be a ninja of the drill. “Sometimes girls are really at a disadvantage in terms of how much…
Suicide Rate Climbs by 30 Percent in Kansas as Government Slashes Mental Health Budgets
by Nick Haines | KCPT News October 23, 2013 Kansas City, MO – The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States this week picks up the story of an alarming increase in the Kansas suicide rate. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment recently released a startling report showing a…