Poi is a performance art done with a pair of fist-sized weights attached to short strings You hold the strings in your hands and can learn to spin the weights around in different cool patterns. Performances can also have poi that are glowing LEDs or on fire! Type "poi performance" into Youtube to see examples! Stop by this walk-in to make your own poi and learn the basics!

There are things you should know about life. School teaches you many things, but often misses things like how to make your friends' parents like you, taking care of yourself when you're sick, and being smart about being stupid. We'll cover all that and more! Featuring a Q&A at the end and lots of room for questions during the class.

Climate change is always in the news, but what is the science behind how carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other human activities impact our climate? What are the economic drivers behind pollution and how successful has environmental policy been in addressing climate issues? This class will give you a unique understanding of the climate change issue from a scientific and economic perspective. We’ll explore the acid rain problem and discuss what the success of the Acid Rain Program in the late 1900s century says about how different policy instruments can address environmental issues.

There are things you should know about life. School teaches you many things, but often misses things like how to make your friends' parents like you, taking care of yourself when you're sick, and being smart about being stupid. We'll cover all that and more! Featuring a Q&A at the end and lots of room for questions during the class.

Is the government allowed to read your search history? How was Twitter allowed to ban Donald Trump? Can you upload a copy of your favorite song to Youtube? In this three class Sequence, we’ll talk about who makes the rules of the Internet, who enforces them, and how all this applies to your life.

Do you ever feel like there aren't enough time blocks at Spark to take classes? Wish you could learn more about *everything*? We'll be teaching you about 10 different topics, with 5 minutes for each! We don't know exactly what we'll teach yet (maybe we'll take suggestions from you all?) Perhaps we'll talk about Scrabble, making pop music, internet policy, mental math, firespinning, relativity, haircutting, and much, much more :D

There are things you should know about life. School teaches you many things, but often misses things like how to make your friends' parents like you, taking care of yourself when you're sick, and being smart about being stupid. We'll cover all that and more! Featuring a Q&A at the end and lots of room for questions during the class.

Ever thought about what happens behind-the-scenes when you sign up for Spark classes? Or how all of our teachers and classes fit into MIT's Zoom rooms? Spark takes months to plan, and for good reason. Come learn how we make Spark happen every year!

There are things you should know about life. They won't teach you this stuff in school. Things like retirement and how to make your friends' parents like you. Featuring a Q&A at the end.

Do you ever feel like there aren't enough time blocks at Splash to take classes? Wish you could learn more about *everything*? We'll be teaching you about 10 different topics, with 5 minutes for each! We don't know exactly what we'll teach yet (maybe we'll take suggestions from you all?) Perhaps we'll talk about Scrabble, meme-y music, gymnastics, mental math, firespinning, and much, much more :D

Ever thought about what happens behind-the-scenes when you sign up for Spark classes? Or how all of our teachers and classes fit into MIT's classrooms? Spark takes months to plan, and for good reason. Come learn how we make Spark happen every year!

For those of you who have never heard of induction, this is the class for you! Learn about a math technique used in all sorts of proofs, from proving that the last domino will fall if you push over the first one to proving (incorrectly) that all horses are the same color.

There are things you should know about life. They won't teach you this stuff in school. Things like how to make your friends' parents like you. Featuring a Q&A at the end.

People complain about the electoral college and about other systems of voting. But can there ever truly be a perfect system? We will use formal logic (in a proof!) to prove this definitively one way or the other.

Ever wondered what connects organ donations, dating, and you getting into this Splash class? In this class we'll talk about how markets work, why they fail, and how we can design better ones. Markets are more than just moving money around!

There are things you should know about life. They won't teach you this stuff in school. Things like retirement and how to make your friends' parents like you. Featuring a Q&A at the end.

Ever thought about what happens behind-the-scenes when you sign up for Spark classes? Or how all of our teachers and classes fit into MIT's classrooms? Spark takes months to plan, and for good reason. Come learn how we make Spark happen every year!

Gerrymandering is an important, complex issue in understanding today's political climate. Come learn more about what this funky word means, and how it impacts everything from national elections to our daily lives.

Come experience a one hour crash course on the American Midwest. Have you ever wondered what areas makeup the Midwest? What differences there are in regional slang? How the history of the region has affected its modern self? Then come experience a part of the US other than the northeast.

Wanna learn some basic gymnastics things? I'll teach you them! Probably like handstands, cartwheels, and forward rolls. Will be a nice break from sitting in a classroom! Also, if you have more gymnastics experience feel free to come, I can teach/work with higher level skills too!