Skip to content
Online campus · for families across the U.S.For schoolsENES
Code and gamesMusic and soundImages, video and storiesScience and inventionsData and productLanguagesThinking with AIMovement and mindfulness

Data and product

Kids learn to ask a real question, use real data to answer it, and turn a problem into something people can use, with honest numbers.

Running in our studio todayStudiosDataProductOffice

What they learn

  • Bet, then check. Guess what the data will say, then count and see if you were right.
  • Real data, with its source. Clean it, chart it, find the pattern and tell it on a poster.
  • Ask people before you build. Interview about what happened, not about your idea.
  • Do the numbers. What one costs, the price, and how many you must sell to get back what you put in. Plus the everyday office skills: a clear email, files and folders in order.

How they learn it

Example mission

The break-time solution

Step 1 · Chispa · ages 10–11

You find a problem at break time, interview people, build a prototype, test it with someone and do the numbers.

  1. 1Write the problem as it really happens, and say who it is for.
  2. 2Interview three people and map what they say, do, think and feel.
  3. 3Make a quick paper prototype and test it: give a task and watch without helping.
  4. 4Add up what one costs, set a price, predict how many to sell, then pitch it in 60 seconds.

What they build

Example of finished work

A paper prototype, a cost ticket with a price, and a 60-second pitch.

Also: a data poster from real records of 344 penguins in Antarctica, a stand for a fair.

Skills it develops

Deciding with dataCommunicatingDirection

How it grows with age

Ages 7–9

Bet which penguin is more common, count with a pictogram, then invent something for a fair stand and set its price.

Ages 10–11

Interview, prototype, test and do the numbers on a real problem at break time.

Ages 12–14

Judge claims with numbers: misleading charts in a fake-news case, and the accuracy of a detector you trained. A campaign built on data is on the road ahead.

Tools they use

Tools they use

Real tools, with one line on what your kid does with each.

  • NASA GISS · GISTEMPOpen data

    Charts how the whole planet's temperature changed and finds the warmest year on record.

  • NOAA · Virginia Key buoy and sea temperatureOpen data

    Cleans real data from a buoy in Miami, odd values included, without inventing a single number.

  • USGS · Earthquake Hazards ProgramOpen data

    Counts and compares earthquakes by month and by size.

  • Palmer Station LTEROpen data

    Measures and compares species of Antarctic penguins.

  • Product studioCHIP studio

    Interviews, a prototype, a test, honest numbers and a 60-second pitch.

Every outside tool is used with a workshop account. A kid never creates or uses an account of their own.

See every tool

Let's talk
about your kid.

Request an interview. We will write to set it up, and your family goes first on the list for the first cohort.

Request an interview
Next · What they learnLanguagesSpanish and English, used with real people.