Spark curiosity.
Build the future.
Bright Spark Foundation brings hands-on electronics, code, and hardware workshops to elementary and middle schoolers — taught by high schoolers who remember exactly what made them fall in love with building things.
Most kids meet electronics for the first time in a textbook. We think the first time should be with a breadboard in their hands.
Bright Spark Foundation is a student-run nonprofit started by TJHSST engineers 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.
Every session ends with a working project, not a worksheet. Tracks are designed to be run standalone or as a full-semester series.
Circuits & Sensors
Kids wire LEDs, buzzers, and light sensors on breadboards to learn how current, voltage, and switches actually behave.
GRADES 4–8 · NO KIT NEEDEDCode Meets Hardware
A block-code intro to microcontrollers — kids program a chip to blink, sense, and react to the world around it.
GRADES 5–8 · MICRO:BITRobotics Basics
Small teams build a simple rolling robot from motors and a chassis kit, then debug it until it actually listens.
GRADES 6–8 · TEAM BUILDSolder & Build
Older kids learn safe soldering technique and assemble a take-home badge or blinky kit, board by board.
GRADES 7–8 · TAKE-HOME KITNinety minutes, start to spark.
Every workshop we run follows the same four beats, whether it's a classroom of 8 or a library of 40.
Spark
A 5-minute demo — a robot, a light-up sign, a sound trick — 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 circuit together, one wire at a time.
Debug
Something won't light up — on purpose. Kids learn that troubleshooting is half of engineering, not a sign of failure.
Show & tell
Kids demo what they built to the group. It's loud, it's proud, and it's usually the part they remember most.
Numbers we're just getting started on.
We're a young foundation — every one of these numbers is climbing every semester.
Built by TJHSST students, for kids like we were.
Every mentor who walks into a classroom for us built their own first circuit not that long ago.
Founder & President
Curriculum Lead
Outreach Lead
Volunteer Mentors
Want Bright Spark in your classroom?
We bring every kit, every mentor, and a curriculum that's already been tested on real 4th–8th graders. Teachers and PTAs just need to give us the room.