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SparkIT
Two middle-school students watch the robot they programmed follow a tape line while their instructor points it out.

Learn it. Revisit it. Master it.

College-level rigor, built for K–12. Every lesson plan, kit, and training included.

  • NGSS aligned
  • ISTE aligned

SparkIT draws on Dr. Mariam Faied's NSF-funded STEM education work and 20+ years teaching engineering and robotics at the university level. Every lesson is built the way engineers actually think: ask, model, build, test. Each lesson is written with the rigor of a college engineering classroom, and aligned to school standard NGSS and ISTE. Every instructor gets full lesson plans, resource kits, and platform training.

Meet the founder

  • NGSS

    Next Generation Science Standards: engineering design

  • ISTE

    ISTE Standards for Students

Four tracks, one spiral

  • A student types on a laptop next to a notebook of hand-drawn flowcharts.

    Python

    Write programs that make ideas run.

  • Two kids crouch to watch a small robot follow a tape course on the classroom floor.

    Robotics

    Build machines that move in the world.

  • Two students hold up hand-drawn picture cards to a tablet camera to train an image classifier.

    AI & ML

    Teach computers to recognize patterns.

  • A teenager wearing a VR headset shapes a virtual world while two classmates watch and laugh.

    XR Game Design

    Create worlds others can step into.

Every lesson, four steps: Wonder. Learn. Build. Prove it.

One class period, four beats — curiosity, theory, making, and a check that it stuck.

  1. 1 of 4

    Wonder

    A question designed to intrigue and hook student curiosity from the first minute.

  2. 2 of 4

    Learn

    The core concept, explained at the right depth for that grade band.

  3. 3 of 4

    Build

    Hands-on application — students build, code, or design something real.

  4. 4 of 4

    Prove it

    Built-in assessment so instructors and students both see progress.

Force & motion, three times over

The same science-class idea, rebuilt at each turn of the spiral.

  1. Two young children push a lightly loaded and a heavily loaded toy truck across a rug.

    Elementary

    Push light and heavy toys and feel which one takes more effort to move.

  2. Middle-school students measure a cart on a ramp with a spring scale and record results.

    Middle school

    Learn Newton's law — force = mass × acceleration — and predict which object needs more push.

  3. High-school students measure a robot's pushing force with a sensor connected to a laptop.

    High school

    Calculate the exact force needed to move a robot, then test the prediction against the real result.

What every instructor gets

A teacher prepares a robotics lesson with a lesson-plan binder, a tray of robot parts and a laptop.

  • Lesson plans

    A detailed plan for every lesson, following the four-beat structure above.

  • Resource kits

    Materials lists and project templates for every lesson.

  • Platform training

    Hands-on training on the curriculum, lesson delivery, and the SparkIT platform before your first class.

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