Bring your Child to Work Day 2025

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Each year since 2007, KC Scout has participated in MoDOT’s Bring Your Child to Work Day. Through this event, kids learn about Scout’s role as the nation’s only Bi-State Traffic Management Center. Scout has traditionally highlighted a key element of Traffic Management by involving the Dynamic Message Signs.

Scout Admin Technician, Nancy Powell, and IT technologist, Terrance Stigler, helps create a fun day! “We give each participant a blank Message Entry Form with instructions on the proper length of characters they can use to create their unique Safety Message,” states Powell.


Event participants were given Scrabble tiles to assist with the creation of their messages. When there were less participants, their messages were shown on the window of the TMC.


This year, Emergency Response (ER) Operator, Floyd Bessard, posted messages on an ER Vehicle’s display board outside the main entrance for the kids to look at and see how the system works.


“This gave the kids an opportunity to see all the technology inside the cab of these highly equipped vehicles,” states Powell.

The kids had a fun time participating in the event with several giving hugs to team members as thanks for all Scout does to keep their parents safe.




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