Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content; instead, her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.

His great achievement was to combine an emotional spark with computer technology, and make the resulting product feel personal.

We found that when we taught participants to ask What if? and How can? questions that nobody present would know the answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit ? asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better inter pretations of their results.

In a statement on its website, the company says it wants Barbies to look more like real people and to give girls everywhere infinitely more ways that spark their imagination and play out their stories.