Spark is a two-day program on MIT’s campus in which students in 7th to 8th grade take awesome classes from MIT students on a variety of subjects from arts and crafts to hardcore math and science topics. This year’s classes include:
- Large numbers
- A brief history of information
- The birthday problem and its applications
- A world without gravity
- Introduction to physics (kinematics)
- Programming simple math in Python
- Why are carrots orange?
- Build a robot
- Protein design
- The science of brain health
- Insects
- The best of the solar system
- Introduction to drug design for human diseases
- Rapid-fire mechanics
- The physics, chemistry, and biology of food
- A Tour of the Elements
Spark will be on March 15 (1-7PM) and March 16 (9AM-4PM). Registration is on a lottery basis and is now open until February 27. The class catalog is located at <http://esp.mit.edu/learn/