A chip-design programme
your own teachers can run.
The schools edition gives a secondary or international school a semiconductor design programme its own teachers can deliver, with the group’s engineers behind them and a fabrication allocation for the cohort.
Train one or two teachers in the studio, the toolchain and the programme sequence.
Run a school cohort on the standard twelve-week structure, with the group’s mentors reviewing designs and signing off for fabrication.
Fabricate the cohort’s designs on the booked routes and hold a school showcase when the silicon returns.
What the school receives
- Ten or more student places on the Studio, with development boards and a fabrication allocation—no design-software licences for the school to buy.
- Teacher training and ongoing mentor support during the cohort.
- School showcase, project pages and, with consent, the school’s entries to regional ISEF-affiliated fairs and open-hardware robotics competitions.
Indicative fee from US$14,000 per ten places; larger cohorts are scheduled across the two fabrication runs each year. Confirmed per school before the cohort begins.
How it works
- Agree places, dates and the fabrication run for the school year.
- Teacher training before the cohort; weekly mentor reviews during it.
- Fabrication, return of silicon, school showcase and the next cohort.
Schools in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan are the first cohorts; international schools elsewhere join online with a local teacher. A letter describing the programme is available for school boards, and we work with the school’s own science or research teacher where one is involved.
Questions schools ask
Does the teacher need a semiconductor background?
No. The studio and the training are designed for teachers of computing, physics or design and technology, with the group’s engineers reviewing every design.
How many students can a school enrol?
From ten places; larger cohorts are scheduled across the two fabrication runs each year.
Does the programme fit a timetable?
Twelve weekly sessions of ninety minutes, plus project time the school schedules as it wishes. Cohorts are timed to the fabrication calendar, so the term in which the school starts determines when the chips return.
Who owns the students’ designs?
The students. The programme receives a licence to showcase the work and, with consent, to include designs in an open registry that later cohorts can learn from. The school receives the same showcase rights for its own communications.
Talk to us about a school cohort.
Tell us the school, the year groups and the term you have in mind, and we will propose places, dates and the fabrication run.