DuRonica Farmer will be entering sixth grade this fall. She began this summer reading at a third grade level. According to Turn the Page KC, a literacy initiative started by Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Sly James, around 80 percent of Kansas City kids are behind when it comes to reading. For kids with few books…
Wednesday July 23, 2013 1 Million Cups will be live streamed. The entrepreneurial pitch program created by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation meets for weekly coffee at 9 am. The caffeinated morning event engages Kansas City’s entrepreneurs to be supportive, mentor, learn, and connect the community. This week, 1 Million Cups is featuring only one…
http://new.livestream.com/kauffmanfoundation/1MC071013 Wednesday July 10, 2013, 1 Million Cups, the entrepreneurial pitch program created by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation meets for weekly coffee at 9 am. The caffeinated morning event engages Kansas City’s entrepreneurs to be supportive, mentor, learn, and connect the community. This week, 1 Million Cups is featuring two start-ups with two conventional…
The Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Kansas City companies and non-profit organizations came together to host 1 Week KC to further grow the city’s electric entrepreneurship scene. 1 Week KC brought the community together to learn about entrepreneurship, promote the develop of small businesses and build business relationships with the community. 1 Week KC went…
Chances are you’ve updated your Facebook status in the last 24 hours, but when was the last time you “shared” anything or checked in with your local school district and fellow parents? Well, at the KC office of the midwestern startup MindMixer they’re putting their heads together with two local school districts in hopes of…
Over one hundred educators from 15 local school districts gathered at the tenth KCPT Education Conference Tuesday.
250 local seniors displayed Engineering and biomedical projects that are the fruits of students’ participation in the KC STEM Alliance’s Project Lead the Way coursework.
Académie Lafayette had their annual lottery for next year’s kindergarten class Thursday March 14.
New report suggests that passing legislation to offer Startup Visas has the potential to add between 500,000 and 1.6 million new jobs over the next 10 years.