Enhance Your Middle School Curriculum
Each episode features a fun take on scientific concepts, with accompanying lesson guides and experiments that can be performed in your classroom or at home!
Enhance Your Middle School Curriculum
Each episode features a fun take on scientific concepts, with accompanying lesson guides and experiments that can be performed in your classroom or at home!
Our Mission
Chip Kids is an educational digital series for young learners, introducing them to the world of semiconductors and fostering their enthusiasm for science vand engineering. Featuring a variety of exciting concepts, eye-catching animations, and engaging experiments that can be performed at home or in the classroom, every episode is a step towards sparking new passions and curiosity.
Made in collaboration between educators, engineers, and industry professionals
Chip Kids prides itself on accessibility and accuracy. Explore the science and engineering behind microchips through fun learning activities using items you can easily find, in your home, class, or community!
Animation to aid in learning abstract concepts
Cameras can only capture part of the fun! To illuminate what is happening on the micro- and nano-scales, exciting animation is used to illustrate complex scientific concepts and provide context for their importance in science and engineering behind microchips microchips.
Lesson guides and materials with every episode
Enhance your middle school curriculum with Chip Kids! Each episode unlocks the science behind microelectronics with fun and engaging experiments. Utilize lesson guides and materials to bring the experiments into your classroom, home, or community.
Season One
All Episodes & Resources
Episode 1
Etch This!
In the world of semiconductors, how do we draw the microscopic markings needed for their circuits to work? Mrs. Pope and the Chip Kids perform an experiment with antacids, vinegar, and tape to learn about the process of chemical etching.
Episode 2
Light It Up!
Did you know you can power a lightbulb with just a battery and aluminum foil? Mrs. Pope illuminates the bright ideas behind electrical current.
Episode 3
Space Race
What do slices of pizza and microchips have in common? In this episode, The Chip Kids race to place as many square chips as they can on a circular wafer and learn about space efficiency.
Episode 4
Microchip 3D
Microchips are found in electronic devices all around us, from computers to rocket ships, but what do they actually look like? Mrs. Pope zooms in on these tiny devices and their surprising layers.
Episode 5
Bending Light
Have you ever wondered why a magnifying glass distorts your reflection? Mrs. Pope and the Chip Kids discover how to bend light like engineers.
LAUNCHING november 15
Episode 6
Diffusion
What happens when you pour water in the center of a circle of candy? Mrs. Pope connects the colorful result to the principle of diffusion, where particles flow outwards to become evenly spread out.
LAUNCHING november 22
Episode 7
Keep It Clean!
A speck of dust is huge compared to a semiconductor— so how can we make sure our microchips are clean? Using pennies and various liquids, Mrs. Pope and the Chip Kids discover which substance does the trick.
LAUNCHING December 6
BRING CHIP KIDS TO YOUR SCHOOL
Chip Kids Season 2 hits the road in 2025!
Chip Kids Season 2 is looking to be filmed on location with real educators and their middle school kids in 2025.
If you’re interested in having Chip Kids film with you and your team, apply below!
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