The NeuroVivid project is developing an innovative maker curriculum aimed at strengthening and broadening the talent pool of the future STEM workforce. NeuroVivid empowers a middle-school aged neurodiverse student population from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds by helping them build their own simple EEG circuits to understand and interact with their brain activity. The project leverages low cost simple BCI tools to design an adaptable BCI experience in makerspaces to increase interest in STEM among a broad range of learners. NeuroVivid is being co-designed and tested using a design research approach with neurodivergent youth and makerspace facilitators. All content and activities are co-designed with stakeholders to ensure their voices are represented at all stages of the project. This project is advancing practice in makerspaces through generating knowledge about how these spaces can more explicitly affirm a broader range of cognitive strengths, while increasing neurodivergent youths’ interest in the STEM careers of the future. The project pays particular attention to the intersectionality of neurodiversity with race, gender, and SES. The NeuroVivid maker curriculum can as a result serve as a model for creating more inclusive STEM maker experiences by identifying barriers to inclusion and how to overcome them.