Grades 7-8: Register Now for MIT SPARK, Mar. 14-15

Events

MIT’s SPARK offers students in Grades 7 and 8 a variety of short, interesting classes on the MIT campus over one weekend, March 14-15. The registration lottery is open now through 5PM on March 3, and until that deadline all course preferences will be treated equally in the lottery. After that, any remaining seats will be open first-come/first-served. Students may choose from over 260 courses and must register on their own. For a full schedule, rank your top 3 classes and star at least 10 classes per time block. 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 70 STEM courses offered:

  • Acting Out Algorithms: Fancy Math but with Strings, Coloring, and Ice Cream
  • ANT Farm: Acronym Not Tenable
  • Artificially Not-Very-Intelligent
  • Biology and Ecology in the Amazon
  • Black Holes!
  • BRIDGE DESIGN! Help Chickens Finally Cross the Road!
  • Chemistry Magic Show!
  • Clock arithmetic
  • Colors in nature
  • Cookie Chemistry
  • Crash Course in Game Theory
  • CRISPR: Hacking the Genome
  • Designing Power Grids of the Future
  • Dissections and Tessellations
  • Diving Deeper: An Opulent Ocean Odyssey
  • Everything you want to know about nuclear power
  • Evolutionary Psychology: Why we act in the way we do
  • Finite Automata
  • Food Chemistry
  • Fun Facts about the Elements of the Periodic Table
  • Gravity
  • Hello GitHub
  • History of Modern Physics!
  • how 2 rocket
  • How to Be a Turing Machine
  • How to deliver drugs
  • How to Make the Perfect Button with CSS
  • How to Spot Planes!
  • How to turn $100k into $100 in a day
  • How to Win Games
  • Induction: “The last guy said it, so it must be true!”
  • Intro to Computer Aided Design (CAD) with TinkerCAD
  • Intro to Neuroscience: Understanding Human Vision
  • Intro to Python Programming
  • Intro to Soldering
  • Introduction to CMOS
  • Introduction to Python Programming
  • Laser cutting 101
  • Let’s Chance: Learn and Play with Probabilistic Coding in Scratch
  • Light and Radiation: The Invisible World
  • Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) Ice Cream
  • List of Paradoxes
  • Marine Toxins
  • Materials Science and Engineering: What it’s all about!
  • Microbiome 101: What’s in your poop?
  • Minecraft SUPERComputer
  • Non-Newtonian Fluids
  • Perceptions and Illusions through the 5 Senses
  • Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness
  • Probability puzzles: Linearity of Expectation
  • Problem Solving with Mechanical Engineering and Physics
  • Product Design Workshop: Natural Disaster Relief
  • Prototyping Circuits
  • Psychiatric and Neurological Disorder
  • Quick Mafs
  • Ramsey Theory
  • Robots: Past, Present, & Future
  • Sail the High Seas
  • Science Bowl
  • Science Like a Girl
  • Scratch!
  • Sharing Secrets: An Introduction to Cryptography
  • Sperner’s Lemma
  • Stargazing, Telescopes and more!
  • Tasteful Genetics
  • That’s Rad: The (mostly) invisible world of radiation
  • The Math Behind How Our Economy Works
  • The Wonders of Math
  • This is Your Brain on Drugs
  • Vectors!