STEM
BackstageQuest
The jobs behind the glass, ages 9–14: spend a week backstage at the museum. Free a fossil without cracking it, protect a rare loan, keep the butterflies alive, light a fragile quilt so it lasts, run the touch cart. Each job has a real tool — and a real way to get it wrong. On-device.
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Meet the cast
BackstageQuest's cast are the museum's real workers; Chief the collections manager shows you that every job behind the glass has a real tool, a real rule, and a real way it can go wrong.
Chief
(Guide) the collections manager — every backstage job has a real constraint and a real failure mode
Scribe
The preparator — frees a fossil from the rock without a single crack (patience + the right power)
Ledger
The registrar — no rare object ships without a condition report and insurance
Fern
The live-collections keeper — the butterfly house lives or dies by humidity and warmth
What's inside
Learning goal
The jobs behind the glass, ages 9–14: spend a week backstage at the museum. Free a fossil without cracking it, protect a rare loan, keep the butterflies alive, light a fragile quilt so it lasts, run the touch cart. Each job has a real tool — and a real way to get it wrong. On-device.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Chief — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How BackstageQuest handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
BackstageQuest runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
BackstageQuest is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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