For the 2019/2020 season, we are working on a very special project. We call the project STEM Magic MADE in St. Louis, and our partners include The Magic House, MADE STL, and St. Louis Public Schools. St. Louis Public Schools (SLPS) is the largest school district in Missouri, and it strives to address issues of racial inequality and poverty that many of its students deal with every day. In 2018, the district’s department of College and Career Readiness launched a district-wide STEM strategy. Studies show that today's STEM workforce is no more diverse now than in 2001, and notably, only 8 percent of STEM degrees awarded in the US are to African-American students. This year, SLPS established
We work with many amazing robotics teams in the St. Louis area. Most of these teams are affiliated with an organization that serves as their parent, and helps them with grants and fundraising. There are a few teams for whom SLSRA serves as the proud adopted parent, and one of those teams is Force Green, FIRST Tech Challenge team 10265 FIRST Tech Challenge is a robotics program for students age 14 to 18, it's very popular in the St. Louis area, and for various reasons, it's a program in which SLSRA is heavily involved. FIRST Tech Challenge is organized into regions along state lines, and our region, comprised of Kansas and Missouri, has 215 teams this season! At the Missouri-Kansas champi
