For the second year in a row, one area robotics team has come out on top at the BEST World Championship.

“It is wonderful to receive the BEST Award for a second year in a row because it shows us that we are doing the right thing,” said Bryant Young, a member of the Homeschool Robotics team from Blue Springs. “It shows us that all our hard work was appreciated, but it also puts a lot of pressure on us to do well the next year and a huge responsibility on us to show that we deserved it.” Read more...

For the past few weeks, fifth grade students at Underwood Elementary have been learning about World War II and the Holocaust. Currently, they’re reading “Diary of Anne Frank” and “Number the Stars,” books about young peoples’ struggles during that time period. But on Wednesday afternoon, the 50 or so students got a real life lesson from someone who lived through that time. Read more...

Brett Watkins thought he knew what he wanted to do with his life after he graduates from Blue Springs High School in 2012.

The high school junior had taken business and marketing courses, become active in the marketing organization DECA and had finished hours of research about potential business colleges. He was ready.

Then, Watkins, decided to attend a weeklong Honeywell Leadership Challenge Academy in Huntsville, Ala. In one week, everything changed. Read more...