Grades 7-8: Register by Feb. 27 for MIT SPARK, Mar. 12-13

Opportunities

MIT’s SPARK offers students in Grades 7 and 8 a variety of short, interesting classes on the MIT campus over one weekend, March 12-13.  The registration lottery is open now through February 27, and until that deadline all course preferences will be treated equally in the lottery.  Starting February 29, any remaining seats will be open first-come/first-served.  Students may choose from over 100 STEM courses*(plus other courses) and are encouraged to register on their own.  A $40 fee covers two days of classes and lunch and lots of walk-in activities.  Generous financial aid is available.  For more information not covered here, email spark@mit.edu.   Here are the STEM courses:

  • Intro to Drug Design for Human Diseases
  • Dynamic Web Programming with JavaScript and NodeJS
  • How Stars Die
  • Prototyping
  • Our New (and Old) Robot Overlords
  • Distributed Data Processing
  • Hacking Flavor
  • What’s in a Sum?
  • Material Science and Engineering? What’s that? WOW
  • Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing
  • Life After Dinosaurs: The Cenozoic Era
  • Finite Automata
  • ScratchMIT
  • Cryptography: Making and breaking secret codes
  • Save a Life, Save a Heart: Learn CPR!
  • Microbiome 101: What’s In Your Poo?
  • Assorted Sorting Algorithms
  • Sound, Waves, and Electricity
  • 8 Bits Walk Across a Bridge
  • Science of Menstruation
  • Symmetry
  • Introduction to Programming
  • Hands-on Electronics
  • Exoplanet Excavation
  • Creepy Crawlies of the Deep Sea
  • Intro to the Command Line
  • Arithmetic, Ancient Egyptian Style
  • Geobashing 101
  • Ecopsychology
  • Insects: Classification and Camouflage
  • Number Theory
  • Bizarre Biology Facts
  • Introduction to Cryptography
  • Exploring Aerospace
  • Python with Turtles: Intro to Programming
  • Under the Sea: Octopus Intelligence
  • Your classical intuition is wrong!
  • Codes and Cryptography
  • Coding is for girls
  • The Good Ideas of Fermat
  • A Piece of Pi
  • How to Make Sense of Quantum Mechanics
  • The Science of Chocolate
  • Point-Set Topology
  • Beginner Web Programming
  • Geometric Construction
  • A Brief History of Time Keeping
  • Uncountability of the reals
  • How to Threaten People (Using Game Theory)
  • Cellular Automata
  • Fun with Pigeonhole Principle
  • Introduction to Astronomy
  • Hands-on Digital Logic
  • Intro to Climate Change
  • The Mathematics of Risk
  • The Physical Internet
  • Intro Programming in Python
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  • Pascal’s Triangle
  • Intro to Programming and Computational Thinking
  • Don’t Touch the King Cobra: An Exploration of Venomous Creatures
  • The Many Transformations of Transition Metals
  • Winning
  • Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Multiverse
  • Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic
  • The Math of Guarding Things: The Art Gallery Problem
  • The Internet
  • Quantum Mechanics Done Right
  • Living on Mars
  • What is a “what if”?
  • Conceptual Calculus
  • How This Website Works
  • Security on the Internet
  • Ultracold Atomic Physics
  • Marine Biology and Climate Change
  • The Scoop on Space Poop: How Astronauts Go Potty
  • Crime Investigation with DNA in 50 Minutes
  • Calculate Pi with Trains!
  • Music Recording and Production
  • Fun with Invariants!
  • Name That Math!
  • Hackintosh 101
  • How To Train Your Elephant
  • Interactive Math with Computers
  • May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
  • Rockets!
  • Can I Cell You About Molecular Biology?
  • Intro to Technology: Arduinos
  • Continued Fractions
  • How to build laser pointers!
  • Famous Results From Female Computer Scientists
  • What is Superconductivity?
  • How big is infinity?
  • Algorithms of the Dummies, by the Dummies, for the Dummies
  • Build a Crystal Radio set!
  • Chaotic Reduction: Play the Math
  • Complex Numbers and the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
  • Cryptography
  • Counting Past Infinity
  • Amazing Insects
  • Privacy in the Age of Smartphones