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Chip Camp
We offer chip camps of varying lengths and difficulties for small groups high school students. The Nanotech Chip Camp is an intensive laboratory experience that will enable students to:
gain a better understanding of integrated circuit systems
understand how the order of steps used in processing affects the outcome
develop procedures which compare change with constancy
model the processes and explain it to someone else
organize what they have learned into a comprehensive display
One day chip camp:
Students learn top-down nanofabrication processes such as photolithography, metal deposition, wet etch, and/or liftoff techniques in the teaching cleanroom. We will guide them through the process while they make a microresistor in various ways.
Longer chip camps:
Longer chip camps will be guided through an exploration of different aspects of what was covered on the first day. This type of investigation involves calculation and analysis, and the results can be used for a science fair project. Two day chip camps are best.
To schedule a chip camp:
Please contact Angela Berensein at (805)893-5999 berenstein@ece.ucsb.edu
Please note that, due to the physical size of the educational clean room, we can only safely accomodate smaller groups of students (8 students). When this clean room moves to its new space in summer of 2008, we will be able to accomodate larger class sizes. We can not organize a Chip Camp for fewer than 6 students.
Past Chip Camps
Our chip camp Hall of Fame has moved to a new page. You can view it here.
The following dates are available for camps:
Camps are available for groups of 6-10 students per camp. If you are interested in scheduling a 1, 2, or 3-day chip camp for any of the dates above, please contact Angela Berenstein.
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Chip Camp Documents Teachers: Once a camp has been confirmed as scheduled, please print out the documents below and have parents sign them. Students without these signed documents will NOT partcipate in a camp. Teachers: Once a camp has been confirmed as scheduled, please print out the documents below and have students sign them.
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Chip Camp Registration If you would like to register a student for a chip camp, please click here. Scholarships This opportunity available for motivated and talented students, regardless of their financial situation. Scholarships are available for students whose parents cannot afford to send them to this camp. If your student cannot afford to please email Angela Berenstein: berenstein@ece.ucsb.edu or call (805)893-5999. Chaperones and Teachers Teachers and Chaperones are providing a service to participating students and their expenses will be paid for through a generous grant from the National Science Foundation. Please email Angela Berenstein: berenstein@ece.ucsb.edu or call (805)893-5999 if you fall into this category . Please print and review the document below for your responsibilities.
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