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Silicon Prairie Land Rush: The Tech Boom in the Crossroads

We take you inside three tech startups in the Crossroads to show you more of what “the scene” looks like these days.

There’s a lot of attention being paid right now, both locally and nationally, to building our economy through technology…Startup America for example. And with the arrival of Google Fiber, it’s been a particularly hot topic in Kansas City lately.

While tech companies have been popping up all across the metro, there’s a noticeable cluster developing in the vicinity of Downtown and the Crossroads. We take you inside three tech startups, to show you more of what “the scene” looks like these days.

Another indication of just how much is going in with Kansas City’s tech scene. Last week, the first “startup” crawl event was held…shuttling the curious to a number of startups in the Crossroads and beyond.

People gathered in lounge area of Sporting Park

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Fostering Entrepreneurial Spirit: Blue Valley School District’s CAPS Program

In the second part of our profile of the Blue Valley School District's CAPS program, we look at how the program not only teaches them skills but also provides entrepreneurial guidance.

Recently on the Local Show, we asked where the Garmins and the Cerners of the future would come from? We took you inside the Blue Valley School District’s 12 million dollar CAPS (Center for Advanced Professional Studies) building where the next generation of engineers and life science researchers are getting a head start while still in high school.

Believe it or not, students in the CAPS program have also created dozens of businesses and products…everything from rechargeable cell phones to a prosthetic knee brace. When the Chamber of Commerce talks about making Kansas City America’s most entrepreneurial city, is this where the next generation will come from?

Two students presenting a product while five adult mentors look on.

Lead funding of KCPT’S reporting of education issues is funded in part by a generous grant from the Kauffman Foundation and additional civic funders.

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Future Innovators of America: Blue Valley School District’s CAPS Program

Rich Miller takes us inside Blue Valley School Districts innovative CAPS program in part one of this two part feature.

Where will the next Garmin and Cerner of the world come from?

Growing entrepreneurs starts young. In the Blue Valley School District, it is starting in an innovative $12.5 million building where the next generation of entrepreneurs, engineers and life science researchers are getting a head start while still in high school.

Exterior of CAPS building

It’s called the Center for Advanced Professional Studies or CAPS. While many high school biology students are learning about DNA from textbooks, there are teens here actually extracting it from the saliva glands of fruit fly larva.

More than 500 Blue Valley juniors and seniors are getting this opportunity in a program that’s fast getting national attention Producer Rich Miller takes us inside in the first of two parts about this program.

Students watching a remote control helicopter device in action

Believe it or not students in the CAPS program have also created dozens of businesses and products…everything from rechargeable cell phones to a prosthetic knee brace.

Some of these teenagers even have patents on their products. Next week on the Local Show, we meet some of those enterprising students.

Lead funding of KCPT’S reporting of education issues is funded in part by a generous grant from the Kauffman Foundation and additional civic funders.

Students gathering on stairs in the CAPS building

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Watts Up: Electric Cars in Kansas City

In collaboration with Johnson County Community College, we look at what Kansas City is doing to prepare for an electric car revolution.

When he first got elected to office , President Obama set an ambitious goal of putting one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. That has been a tough sell with many American consumers. Currently, there are just 75,000 electric cars on our nation’s streets and according to a recent Kansas City Star report there are fewer than 100 plug in electric cars and trucks in our area.

But that does not mean the metro isn’t preparing itself for an electric vehicle revolution. While many of us were at holiday parties at the end of year, you might have missed a new study from the Metropolitan Energy Center showing Kansas City beefing up its electric vehicle infrastructure.

We take a closer look as part of our joint reporting project on sustainability issues with broadcast students at Johnson County Community College.

Sign which reads Parking Reserved for Electric Vehicles Only While Charging Violators Will Be Towed

From Leawood to Lee’s Summit, visit the EV plug-in map to find out where you can stop in and charge up.

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