Grades 7-8: Register NOW for Virtual MIT Spark, Mar. 13, 20 & 27

Events, Opportunities, Virtual/Online

This year MIT’s Spark enrichment program for Grades 7-8 will be run virtually over three Saturdays, March 13, 20 & 27 . MIT students run Spark and teach its courses, which may be one-day stand-alone classes or sequences that span multiple Saturdays. Classes will be held each Saturday during 11AM-1PM and 2PM-5PM. The cost is $40 per student regardless of the number of courses taken, and there is generous, need-based financial aid available. Register by March 4 with your course choices to be included in the lottery for course placements. To maximize the number of time blocks in which you have classes, for each time block you should rank at least 3 classes and star at least 6 classes. After the lottery, there will be first-come/first-served registration for remaining spots until March 10. For more information, email spark@mit.edu. Among the 84 classes available are these STEM-related ones:

  • Introduction to MIT App Inventor
  • Introduction to Proof Logic
  • Visual Accessibility with MIT App Inventor
  • Spreadsheets are Cool
  • How To Quickly Prototype an AI Chip
  • Introduction to Computer Programming
  • Create Your Own Conversational AI Agents
  • Siri, self-driving cars, and COVID: what can (and can’t) AI do for you?
  • Random Forests: Introduction to Machine Learning
  • Satellite Engineering
  • What in the world is plasma?
  • Metals & Metallurgists & Manufacturing
  • How To Make Mediocre Furniture
  • Yeeting Rockets
  • Intro to Electronics
  • Tessellations of 2D planes & 3D space
  • Infinities
  • Cellular Automata
  • Information and the Redundancy of English
  • Fractals!
  • Fibonacci Numbers! Featuring Recursion
  • Mod Mathematics and Mod Art
  • Introduction to Number Theory
  • The Science of COVID-19
  • Debates in Bioethics
  • Getting to the Bottom of Things
  • Antiferromagnetism!!
  • How Do We Make Energy?
  • How to Build a Virus
  • Fusion Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Racism
  • what is DNA, structure and its function
  • mRNA vaccine turning people into mutants? Science behind COVID and vaccine
  • Light and Radiation: The Invisible World
  • The Origin of Everything: Introduction to Cosmology
  • Glow Big or Glow home
  • Active Galaxies & Supermassive Black Holes
  • Introductory cardiology: how the heart beats and breaks
  • Stellar graveyard: black holes, neutron stars and more!
  • Physics of the Extreme!
  • Introduction to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
  • Let’s Talk about the Weather!
  • Seedy Dealings: The Rise of Plants
  • The Microbiome: How much of your body is you?
  • The Science of Happiness
  • Science and Economics of Climate Change: Understanding Environmental Successes and Failures
  • Women’s Health
  • Special Relativity
  • Microbiome 101: What’s in your poop?
  • Nuclear Fusion: Infinite, Clean Energy?