SPARK is an innovative organization with the mission to empower students in grades K-12 with essential financial literacy skills and an entrepreneurial mindset. We offer youth programs for all ages, including after-school clubs, project days, tailored workshops, weekend classes and summer camps.
Currently serving schools in Montgomery County and Northern Virginia.
Grades: 3rd - 5th Ages: 8 - 12
Description
Students learn the art of persuasion and help select debate topics they find interesting. Students work in rotating groups and practice their debating skills in a supportive environment, including developing arguments, issuing rebuttals, providing examples, rebuilding their case and summarizing points of view. Students learn to think on their feet and enhance their public-speaking skills, gaining self-confidence in the process.
Grades: K - 2nd Ages: 5 - 8
Description
Are you ready to innovate? Get your creative juices flowing in this project based program, where you will identify the need for an invention, think on your feet, and create real structures and solutions. Students also learn about famous inventors and internalize how recent innovations improve our lives.
Grades: K - 2nd Ages: 5 - 8
Description
Designed for our youngest students, this innovative foundation on financial literacy also serves as a practical math lab where students learn and reinforce computational skills, while developing a mindset for healthy financial habits. From playing money math games to learning about budgeting through engaging activities, students have fun while they enhance their “real life” math skills!
Grades: 3rd - 5th Ages: 9 - 13
Description
Join the staff of your very own newspaper, and develop time management and writing skills as you learn “who, what, when, where and why.” Students will learn to interview, write about local news, voice their opinions in op-ed essays and manage production of their digital publication. A must for aspiring school newspaper writers and editors!