About Us

We help builders gain confidence through hands-on STEM play.

We are two parents on a mission to make STEM learning hands-on, screen-free, and genuinely fun for the next generation of builders.

Parent-Founded

Education Focused

Built to Last

Two men standing in a bright, modern workshop or studio. The man on the right holds up a small, colorful object that appears to be a miniature toy or model made from LEGO bricks and glasses.

How It Started

A Prototype on the Kitchen Table

A toy-built circuit board model on an orange baseplate, featuring a small white and red fan, a black Energizer 9V battery, white and pink brick walls, and electronic components on a white background.

Our journey began in 2021 with a simple question: what if building blocks could do more than build? Mark spent years on the answer; tinkering in his workshop, wiring batteries and circuit boards, smelting copper, drilling, sawing and molding plastic parts, looking for the perfect way to make components connect and interact. Prototype after prototype, he slowly got closer until the design finally “clicked” into something genuinely fun to build with and SparkBlocks was born.

Holden joined Mark in 2024 and together they obsessed over the details, refined the system, and figured out how to bring this invention to the world. In 2025, we launched on Kickstarter and the overwhelming response told us we had something that others had been waiting for so we hit the ground running and are still building today!

Why we're here

To empower the next generation of creators by making real technology accessible, fun, and endlessly creative.

  • STEM for everyone

    Accessible and welcoming regardless of age, gender, or background.

  • Fun that teaches

    Toys up front, learning in the back. If it's not fun, it won't leave the toy shelf.

  • Real-world ready

    Real components, real concepts, so what you learn actually translates.

  • Endlessly creative

    Open-ended systems built for rebuilding and remixing, not one-time use.

Top half of the block housing, gold-plated contacts on one corner
Circuit board with two conductive studs and a connector
Motor, gearbox and output axle
Bottom half of the block housing, ribbed inside

Our patent-pending motor brick design

How we built it

Small design, big achievement

Putting electronics in a toy is easy. Putting them inside a brick that a seven-year-old can safely snap onto powered electronics in any order is not.

  1. Gold-Plated Contacts

    Power moves top to bottom through the same stud and tube geometry builders already trust. Stack a block, close a circuit.

  2. Conductive Studs

    These spring-loaded pins allowed us to send reliable conductivity through the plastic parts without degrading when clicked together.

  3. Circuit board

    Every SparkBlock carries its own printed circuit board, populated with real components. The electronics are not a metaphor.

  4. Clamshell housing

    Sizing this to snap together perfectly required us to remake this in .01mm steps.

Designed in Canada.Trusted by families worldwide.

  • 8,000+

    Kits Shipped

  • 60

    Countries

  • 4.9

    Average Rating

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Our team

Meet the Builders

  • A smiling man with graying hair and a beard wearing a black textured collared shirt, set against a graphic background with a large mustard yellow shape on a white field.

    Mark

    Founder / CEO

    Landscape architect, game developer, and the inventor behind SparkBlocks. Usually sketching the next idea or on a field hockey pitch.

  • A smiling man with short light brown hair and a beard, wearing a light blue crewneck t-shirt, set against a graphic background of diagonal yellow and white shapes.

    Holden

    Co-Founder / Operations

    Engineer, entrepreneur, and the one who sweats the details. Trail runs, kiteboards, and will redo a box insert four times.

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    Mikey

    Digital Director

  • A smiling woman with long dark hair wearing a white top, set against a graphic background with a large mustard yellow shape and a white triangle.

    Michelle

    Education Director

  • A young man with short brown hair and black-rimmed glasses, wearing a gray zip-up hoodie under a gray hooded jacket with maroon shoulder panels, posed against a graphic background of yellow and white.

    Shota

    Builder Support

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    Agi

    Finance

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