Spark curiosity.
Build the future.
Bright Spark Foundation brings hands-on electronics, code, and hardware workshops to elementary and middle schoolers, taught by passionate high schoolers with years of experience.
Most kids don't have a chance to get hands-on with electronics.
Many schools don't have the budget, tools, or trained teachers to offer real circuit-building, soldering, or coding experience. Kids grow up surrounded by tech they never learn to understand or build.
Bright Spark Foundation is a student-run nonprofit started by TJHSST students who wanted younger kids to get the head start they didn't have. We run free, hands-on workshops where 4th–8th graders wire real circuits, program real microcontrollers, and take home something they built themselves.
Four tracks, one goal: hands on the hardware.
Circuits & Sensors
Kids wire LEDs, buzzers, and light sensors on breadboards to learn how current, voltage, and switches behave.
Code Meets Hardware
A block-code intro to microcontrollers — kids program a chip to blink, sense, and react to the world around it.
Robotics Basics
Students build robots that combine motors, sensors, and microcontrollers into fully functional systems.
Solder & Build
Older kids learn safe soldering technique and assemble a take-home project.
Start to spark.
Spark
A demo that makes kids ask "wait, how does that work?"
Build
Every kid gets their own components and a mentor at their table. We build the project together.
Debug
Kids learn that troubleshooting is half of engineering, not a sign of failure.
Show & tell
Kids demo what they built to the group.