Grades 7-10: Register by Mar. 5 for MIT SPARK (Mar. 16-17)

Events, Opportunities

Run by MIT undergraduate and graduate students, SPARK offers students in Grades 7-10 a variety of short, interesting classes on the MIT campus over one weekend, March 16-17 (10AM-6PM on Saturday, 9AM-6PM on Sunday). The registration lottery is open now through 11:59PM on March 5, 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 about 100 courses and must register on their own. To fill your schedule, rank your top 3 classes and star at least 10 classes per time block. A $70 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 STEM courses offered:

  • Making art with Robots
  • Linux and open source software
  • Introduction to Programming in OCaml
  • Better Coding with Vim: Intro to Keybinds and Configuration
  • Web Development Crash Course
  • Tales of the Americas through biology and genetics
  • It’s Not Rocket Science (Wait, Yes It Is!)
  • How to Run an Airline
  • CAD Croc Creations: Make Your Own Jibbitz!
  • Extreme Engineering
  • How To Build A Road Legal Solar Car
  • How do cars work?
  • Explore ZeroE Aviation!
  • Tales of Antiquity though engineering
  • Engineers Without Borders: Projects in Global Development
  • Pixel Pioneers: Journey into AI Vision & Robotics!
  • Beyond Numbers: The Adventure After Calculus
  • Intro to Japanese Soroban
  • Geometry and Beauty of Soap Bubbles
  • Mathematical Matchmaking
  • High Speed Mathematics
  • Cosmology: The Universe at Large
  • Seeing is Believing? The Science of Optical and Auditory Illusions
  • Using ChatGPT
  • Traveling at the Speed of Light
  • Introduction to Global Health
  • Sensory Safari: A Brain Exploration
  • Flaming Fruit Fusion
  • The AI Revolution and What it Means for Public Health
  • COMPOSTING – achieving Sustainability Goals
  • The Fascinating Physics of Solids
  • The Strongest Force in the Universe
  • Let’s Explore the Periodic Table!
  • Digging Deeper: 4.65 Billion Years in 150 Minutes
  • What’s in a Nuclear Reactor?
  • 3,2,1 Beyblade Physics!
  • Let’s Talk about the Weather!
  • How to be a Linguistic Detective
  • The Psychology of Superheroes: Understanding the Minds of Fictional Heroes and Villains
  • Making Waves : An Introduction to Phonetic Speech Analysis