Used in schools, libraries, and programs
From classrooms to out-of-school partners, Sparks are designed for real learning spaces.
Each Spark is a hands-on engineering activity with a ready-to-project slide deck, a one-page quick start, and a coaching guide. Peek inside any Spark without an account. Free signup unlocks the full guides.
Blendies
Explore symmetry, balance, and optical color mixing with rebuildable spinning tops.
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Wind-Up Vehicles
Design and build vehicles that zoom using a spring-driven motor and stored energy.
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Monster Claws
Build an air-powered claw that opens, closes, picks up, and lets go.
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Flying Machines
Build reusable high-flying copters and explore energy transfer, aerodynamics, and flight.
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Drawbots
Build whimsical machines that move, scribble, and draw through vibration and iteration.
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Crankie Contraptions
Tell a scrolling illustrated story using a cardboard screen machine.
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Monster Mouths
Create playful air-powered creatures that move with pistons, cylinders, and air pressure.
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Art Machines
Build kinetic creatures from levers and fulcra that come to life when their parts move together.
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Screen Machines
Plan and bring illustrated stories to life by building a cardboard scrolling machine.
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Eyelusions
Build a motorized thaumatrope, design image pairs, and discover how motion can fool the eye.
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Scene Machines
Create hand-powered automata that use rotational motion to animate a scene.
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Mazes
Build ramps and pathways that guide a ball to its goal, then connect mazes together.
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Hypnotizers
Draw colorful spirals with a spring-driven machine that creates different designs every time.
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Strawbots
Explore balanced and unbalanced forces in a motorized wiggling machine.
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Straw Structures
Engineer rebuildable structures with paper tubes, flexible connectors, geometry, and open-ended design.
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Linkages
Invent moving cardboard contraptions using systems of levers, fulcra, and linkages.
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Electric Vehicles
Design, build, and test battery-powered vehicles using motors and simple circuits.
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From classrooms to out-of-school partners, Sparks are designed for real learning spaces.
Everything you need to teach a Spark is free to educators. Kits are sold separately.
A real person at FutureMakers can help you plan your first Spark.