Spark is an international outreach initiative that sends kits filled with basic supplies to locations around the world. While the kit may seem like an unsuspecting combination of paper clips, rubber bands, string, and more common items, using the accompanying experiment guide you can quickly turn those simple materials into a scientific adventure!

We want to pave an avenue for access to STEM education. Spark’s goal is to send reusable science kits around the world to inspire underprivileged children to make differences in their communities. So far, we have sent 134 kits to 44 countries. Spark impacts not only children around the world, but our own students as well. Exploding Bacon students grow as they test experiments, raise funds, seek out new places to send kits and hear the positive feedback. We hope that by spreading the joy of science to young developing minds we can inspire and create the next generation of scientists and engineers.

In addition to the kits, we also want to help raise awareness of the importance of STEM in developing countries.

We know that we can’t do everything ourselves, so we also provide additional learning materials and lessons on our website, as well as instructions for other robotics teams and organizations to send Spark boxes of their own. We want to change the world together!