"Splash gave me the opportunity to have fun classes and get the feeling of being part of campus, if only for a little while."

- Ana Villa, Questbridge Scholarship finalist and senior at American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland, CA. Ana attended Stanford Splash on October 29-30.

Watch a solar panel get installed in 15 seconds.

Yale Splash teacher Ian Applegate shows how with a flip book he created and illustrated.



LU to invite undergraduate admissions directors, educators, and students to MIT Splash Parents Program.

While teens are taking classes, parents and family members are welcome to attend the sessions that Learning Unlimited supports as part of its mission to bring Splash programs to students around the nation. See the MIT Splash schedule updates.

A Splash for kids and adults, in the SF Bay Area

Are you an adult who wished you could attend Splash, too? Or a student who wants more hands-on , do-it-yourself learning? Join LU's Chairman of the Board of Directors J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira at Workshop Weekend in Oakland, CA, on November 5 & 6.

J.D. has been involved with Splash programs since 2002, when he first taught a class on abstraction in modern computing for MIT's HSSP program. Since then, J.D. helped start Learning Unlimited to bring Splash-like programs around the country. Outside of the LU world, J.D. has been a software engineer at Google - twice - and also created EtherPad, the web-based collaborative text editor acquired by Google in 2009.

What We're Reading

The Institute of Broadening Participation has a database of research programs for high school students.

Self-decribed "education futurist" Maria Andersen discusses personalized learning.

Teens and educators are invited to apply for money to solve real-world programs through Lemelson-MIT Inventeams and ExploraVision.

A high school student complains that Yale Splash wasn't longer in the Yale Daily News.

Research from the Afterschool Alliance finds that students who participate in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM) afterschool programs have improved attitudes towards the field and are more likely to continue pursuing STEM-related careers.

Upcoming Programs

November 5 — Splash at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO.

November 13 — Splash at Boston College, Boston, MA. Free.

November 19-20 — Splash at MIT, Cambridge, MA. $30, fee waivers available.

March 10 — Spark at MIT, Cambridge, MA.

March 10 — Splash at UMBC, Baltimore, MD.

Support LU

Learning Unlimited is committed to helping programs like Splash grow and thrive around the nation. We currently support over 1,000 college student volunteers and 6,000 pre-college students through mentoring, software, and a knowledge base of dedicated volunteers to our programs, but we need help from you as well.

Please support LU through a donation.