Academics
SciQuest
Predict, watch, and explain grade-3 science with Zoomi the roadrunner — forces, magnets, life cycles, traits, weather, and fossils — all read aloud, for ages 8–9.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 15 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
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Mentored by Professor Sorrel
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Meet the cast
SciQuest is a grade-3 lab where a young explorer PREDICTS what will happen, watches, then explains why — with animal scientists who each embody one NGSS idea. Zoomi the roadrunner is the hero; keeper Professor Sorrel frames every predict-observe-explore. A wrong prediction is the whole point — never a failure — and every prompt is read aloud.
Zoomi
Forces & motion — a roadrunner who speeds up only when one push wins; unequal force IS the change in motion
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Pola
Magnetism — a mole who pulls a nail without touching it; the at-a-distance pull IS magnetic force
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Loopa
Life cycles — a frog who grows egg → tadpole → frog and begins again; the loop IS the life cycle
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Genna
Inherited traits + variation — a moth who passes on wing-color, and the shade that hides survives; variation IS the survival trait
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Gale
Weather & climate — a petrel who reads the season's pattern to call tomorrow's weather; the pattern IS the forecast
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Fossa
Fossils / evidence — a pangolin who digs a fossil from a deep layer and reads the old world; the layer IS the evidence
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Professor Sorrel
The lab keeper — a warm badger who frames each predict-observe-explain and never shames a wrong guess
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What's inside
Learning goal
Predict, watch, and explain grade-3 science with Zoomi the roadrunner — forces, magnets, life cycles, traits, weather, and fossils — all read aloud, for ages 8–9.
Question kits
9 curriculum-aligned question kits, 180 questions in all, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Professor Sorrel — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How SciQuest handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages
SciQuest 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
SciQuest 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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