Tag: Operation Breakthrough

Coding at age 3? Operation Breakthrough connects STEM to program’s circuitry

By Tommy Felts / November 9, 2017

Two small boys are standing on stools at a workbench, pretending to talk on outdated handset telephones. They might not yet know how the phones work, but they’re clearly familiar with how to take them apart. And they do. A few feet away, three children from low-income families are on iPads beginning a new lesson.…

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Original Troost Coalition members

You don’t have to pick a side, neighbor-led Troost Coalition says

By Tommy Felts / October 18, 2017

It’s about bringing residents back to Troost Avenue, Cathryn Simmons said. And that means challenging the status quo. “This used to be a free-for-all. Troost was the Wild Wild West of Kansas City,” she said. “You could come over here and do anything you wanted. Legally.” A founding member of the Troost Coalition, Simmons helped…

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Chris Goode, Ruby Jean's Kitchen and Juicery

Wonder no more: Ruby Jean’s taking juice to Troost

By Tommy Felts / September 13, 2017

Thirty years after Chris Goode’s grandmother helped drop him off for daycare at Operation Breakthrough on Troost Avenue, the entrepreneur is expanding the juicery that bears her name — Ruby Jean’s — to a site less than a block away. “It’s crazy how life comes full circle,” said Goode, Ruby Jean’s Juicery founder. “I’m 33 now…

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