🔬IEEE TryEngineering Trains 54 Educators on Chips and AI Across Four Countries

Your next STEM class could use a free microchip lesson

IEEE's TryEngineering program just wrapped another round of teacher training, and the headline number is 54 educators across the US, Egypt, Greece, and Guatemala. The pitch is simple: give teachers hands-on engineering lessons they can drop into class without building curriculum from scratch. If you mentor students, run a STEM club, or volunteer with outreach, this is a free toolkit worth bookmarking. The lessons are the real product here. Teachers got walked through the Making of a Microchip, Train Your Tree, Working With Wind Energy, and the Tall Tower Challenge, plus a photonics experiment run on university Nano Center equipment. Each session pairs hands-on projects with instruction on how to actually teach them. That's the part most outreach programs skip. The numbers: 54 educators learned the engineering design process this year, up from nearly 80 teachers across five US states and Mexico last year when you count the full cycle. Sessions run through a network of 7 host universities through the OnCampus Program. The program turns 20 this year, and it has been focused on AI and semiconductor education for three years. Watch the international expansion. The IEEE Educational Activities Board is backing upcoming global sessions, so expect more countries to get these lessons.