The Scion: A Hero In Motion
Maker Faire Bay Area 2023
October 13th-22nd
The Scion: A Hero In Motion is a superhero story that teaches science, targeted toward preteens, teens and young college students.
Ray Gallagher (superhero alias “The Scion”) is a college science student with the power to manipulate the forces of nature — but only if he deeply understands them. If Ray understands gravity, he can jump extra high; if he understands heat and energy, he can manipulate fire. Through this mechanism, story and teaching are intertwined.
The Scion covers topics in-depth in a pedagogical fashion, and concepts build upon each other and are revisited throughout the novel. It is The Magic Schoolbus for middle-grade, but with added emphasis on conceptual learning. We presented an earlier version online at Maker Faire: Capitol Hill. We hope you like the previews!
Andrew Spielberg
Andrew Spielberg is a robotics researcher at Harvard and Stanford and a recent PhD alum from MIT working on democratizing robot technology; this project was supported by MIT’s Sandbox Innovation Fund.
