Black & Veatch Mentoring Program

Kansas City PBS connects businesses with classrooms and after-school programs to establish mentorships for students across the metro. 

The Black & Veatch Mentoring Program pairs students with Black & Veatch engineers to increase awareness of STEM careers and engineering concepts. The engineers present hands-on workshops with the students. During the classroom workshops, the visiting Black & Veatch mentors lead STEM projects and guide the students through each activity to reinforce the topics of each session. Students work in teams of five on three different timed projects. The program has now been in nearly 100 elementary schools and has mentored thousands of fifth graders in structural, electrical and water engineering.