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UMKC’s Concrete Canoe team with their 2024 competition canoe.

UMKC Concrete Canoe: Rowing into the Future

Rachel Meng and Sara Hanon
October 3, 2024

  Concrete Canoe is a club dedicated to showcasing students' innovation by putting their creativity and knowledge into practice by creating canoes out of concrete. They race the canoes as well as build them.   The club is divided into teams, each having a specialization....

UMKC's RoosRead gathers students and staff for a year-long literary journey and a page-turning community.

A new reading initiative is taking shape on the UMKC campus

Alexandrea Erisman, Staff Writer
November 27, 2023

  UMKC unveiled a new initiative this year called RoosRead. The program is aimed to encourage students and staff to read a recommended book, fostering a sense of community and belonging by creating a campus-wide book club.    The Office of the Chancellor launched the...

Jesse Best (left) and David Rodriguez (right)

Design Build Fly Rises to the Challenge

Gabriel Flynn, Staff Writer
March 15, 2023

  Founded just a week before competition proposals were due, UMKC’s Design Build Fly group rushed together to seize this opportunity for victory.   As their name suggests, they must design, build and fly an airplane-styled drone and write a detailed proposal explaining...

UMKC Debate Coach and competitor, Yasmeen Hanon. Photo courtesy of LinkedIn.

UMKC Team Spotlight: Debate

Zach Gunter, Staff Writer
February 4, 2023

  UMKC Debate coach and competitor, Yasmeen Hanon, brought the club back after nearly 2 years of being absent from campus.    “I had a lot of experience in high school with speech and debate,” said Hanon. “I thought I could take my expertise and use it to re-establish...

The club is dedicated to creating more biodiversity on campus. (UMKC)

Gardening Club returns after years of inactivity

Alivia Meyers
April 27, 2022

Several years after it was disbanded, UMKC is hosting a new club dedicated to the biodiversity and sustainability of the campus grounds. Officially introduced this spring, students created UMKC’s Gardening Club out of a unified goal to better environmentalism efforts on...

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