By Areiona King and Liz Harris When families pedal together, they laugh and sweat and move together. Everyone stretches their legs, everyone breathes fresh air. Our Family Earn-a-Bike program provides access to bicycles and education for kids and adults who are looking for a way to get exercise and go places… together! Our latest session […]
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Bike Club gets an “A”
By David Hansen Through a recent evaluation of the East High School Bike Club thanks to grant support from the Menorah Heritage Foundation, we have confirmed empirically what we already knew anecdotally: Bike Club is gets more kids riding bikes! Through BikeWalkKC’s partnership with the Menorah Heritage Foundation, BikeWalkKC staff attended the UMKC Bloch School […]
“Walking School Bus” Season Is Coming Soon!
Your Safe Routes to School- Wyandotte update! As we approach warmer weather and welcome the Spring season, we have a lot to be excited about! At the top of that list is getting back outside, enjoying the weather, and WALKING! That’s right: Following Spring Break, on Mondays March 19th and 26th, many USD 500 (KCKPS) […]
Adult Education Programs and Classes
BikeWalkKC offers a wide range of classes, programs, and events for adults, youth, neighborhood leaders, and transportation professionals. Are you interested in riding, but could use a little more information to help boost your confidence? Would you like to learn how to do basic bike maintenance? Is your neighborhood association or school applying for […]
BLAST goes on the road
Topeka physical education teachers got a winter break treat this week when Topeka Community Cycle Project (TCCP) and Topeka Public Schools invited BikeWalkKC’s education team for a refresher course in the Bicycle Lesson and Safety Training (BLAST) program. Topeka BLAST, supported by Safe Kids Shawnee County, the Topeka Community Foundation, and Heartland Healthy Neighborhoods is […]
An Intern Wears Many Hats: A Pryor Leadership Fellow Looks Back
Blair Sundhausen, a senior at William Jewell this year, joined the education team this fall as a Pryor Leadership Fellow. We were thrilled to have Blair join us, learn about BikeWalkKC, and help with the delivery of the education programs! Blair shares her experience as a fellow in this blog post: “Being a student in […]
Women Bike KC Celebrates Sisterhood in 2017
The Women Bike KC initiative is a product of women who want their sisters to feel confident, safe, and empowered to ride. It was launched in 2014 when BikeWalkKC hosted our very first Kansas City Women’s Bike Summit, and has grown into a year-round, multi-faceted effort to get more women and girls on bikes. “We […]
Fall Highlights from BikeWalkKC’s Education Team
by Maggie Priesmeyer, Director of Programs We are SUPER proud of our education team and all of their hard work over the last few months! We want to share some of our favorite highlights from this fall. Youth Education Once again, youth education programs engaged a record number of students across 10 schools in Missouri […]
We need your used youth and adult bikes for our Earn-a-Bike program
Do you remember spending childhood summers biking around your home town? Exploring the neighborhood? Meeting friends? We need your help to make sure more local kids have the same great biking summer this year!
Donate used bikes
We need your help providing bicycles to 4th-6th grade students who participate in our Earn-a-Bike program. Since the program’s inception in 2012, BikeWalkKC has given out over 300 bicycles to Kansas City area youth.