If at first your experiment gets blown up in a rocket, try, try again

By | November 24, 2014 |
Photo of student holding up small plastic tube.

Sitting at a lab table over the lunch hour at St. Peter’s School in Kansas City, Missouri, a group of eighth graders are loading freeze dried E.coli bacteria into plastic tubes. It’s all part of a special package destined for the International Space Station. And it’s not the first time students Holden O’Keefe, Eamon Shaw…

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Green Works KC fuels graduation rates with environmental education

By | August 18, 2014 |
Green Works KC student Keylen Madge speaking into microphone while giving "Penguin Chat" at the KC Zoo.

As part of the national American Graduate initiative, KCPT is highlighting several community leaders and educators who are making significant, scalable changes to prepare students for success in K–12 and beyond.These stories of local education champions will air on KCPT in the weeks leading up to American Graduate Day on Sept. 27, a live, multi-platform…

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5 apps designed by Kansas City girls at no-boys-allowed camp

By | August 11, 2014 |
app camp

When you think about a typical summer camp, the great outdoors, swimming, campfire songs and s’mores come to mind. But, at this camp, girls sit quietly clicking away at computers in a classroom. They’re all developing their own apps for Android phones. And this camp is strictly no-boys-allowed. This is the second year that an…

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Lenexa middle school teachers go green at Honeywell boot camp

By | July 3, 2014 |
Photo of Langton and Boyington at Mill Creek Middle School.

Come fall at Mill Creek Middle School, some students will get to build something in their math and English language arts classes other than equations and essays: wind turbines. English teacher Kristan Langton and math teacher Amber Boyington were two of 70 teachers from around the world who were invited to spend a week at…

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