LEAP Lab: Get Your Spark

Free and open to all.

In this fun and hands-on program, award-winning scientist and author Dr. Ainissa Ramirez will share the work of an inventor who changed the world—Jim West, the creator of the microphone.

Participants will make their own microphone using balloons and paper cones, followed by a storytime reading of Spark: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone. This program is designed with ages 5-9 in mind, but all ages are welcome.

This event is presented in collaboration with MIT Kids Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press, and the MIT Press Bookstore.