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.