SPARK: Scientific Prototyping with Agentic Reasoning and Knowledge

Harvard FAS

SPARK challenges students to design and build a new scientific instrument in a single semester and develop a business plan that could become the foundation of a new company. Working in multidisciplinary teams, students will use agentic AI to accelerate development, explore more design possibilities, and extend what a small team can accomplish.This is a hands-on course: students will turn a scientific measurement challenge into working hardware. Teams will select from staff-provided project…