SCALE K-12: Building the Future of Careers in Microelectronics

Purdue University
Joined August 2024
🍂 Fall Into Novel Engineering! 📚 4 fall stories. 4 FREE engineering lessons! Five educators connect children's books with circuits, coding, robotics & creative problem-solving for grades 1–4. 🎃🍁 Explore the lessons: scalek12.org/novel-engineeri… #SCALEK12 #STEM
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Books, lights, and big ideas! 📚💡 Teachers at @TSCSuper Mayflower Mill, Hershey, Klondike, and Wea Ridge elementary schools are bringing SCALE K–12 to life through Novel Engineering and Lights, Parade, Action! #SCALEK12 #STEMEducation
Our Summer/Fall 2026 newsletter is here! 💡 Explore classroom connections to chip careers, summer teacher workshop highlights, new NSF funding and AI teaching innovation. Read more 👇 linkedin.com/newsletters/sca…
🌎 SCALE K-12 is going global! From Türkiye 🇹🇷 to Sweden 🇸🇪, Deputy Director Dr. Greg Strimel recently served as a visiting scholar at Umeå University, sharing SCALE K-12 curriculum and research on bringing microelectronics into K-12 classrooms. #SCALEK12 #STEMEducation
Director Dr. Tamara Moore delivered an opening keynote at @educconorg 2026 in Konya, Türkiye 🇹🇷, sharing Purdue expertise with an international audience. And Türkiye is only our first stop... 👀 Come back tomorrow to see where another SCALE K-12 PI is headed!
Loogootee, let’s celebrate Mrs. Tippery! 💚 Brandy Tippery is one of SCALE K–12’s Noyce Microelectronics Master Teacher Fellows. What do you appreciate about her? Tell us in the replies, and follow along to meet a different teacher each week.
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It’s #NationalCodingWeek! 💻🎮 For #FunFriday, explore micro Masters: Control the Game. Students use Scratch and micro to design, test and refine interactive games while building coding and debugging skills. Explore the lesson: scalek12.org/lessons/microbi…
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Building U.S. semiconductor facilities is only part of the challenge—we also need a skilled workforce. SCALE K-12 is proud to help students discover microelectronics and related careers. The pipeline begins in K–12 classrooms! @CNBC cnbc.com/2026/09/17/us-chipm…
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🌟 Our first Noyce Teacher Spotlight is here! Meet Megan Riley of @WashCommSchools, one of SCALE K-12’s 18 Noyce Microelectronics Master Teacher Fellows. Hear what inspired her to join this @NSF-funded program! #NoyceFellows #SCALEK12
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Microelectronics in just ONE word—what would you choose? 🤔 We asked our @NSF-funded Noyce Microelectronics Master Teacher Fellows! Their answers offer a fun glimpse into their personalities and perspectives. Drop your one-word answer below! ⬇️ #SCALEK12 #Microelectronics
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🎉 New series! With funding from the @NSF, SCALE K-12’s Noyce Microelectronics Master Teacher Fellows are growing as teacher leaders. Dr. Greg Strimel kicks things off by sharing what it means to be a Fellow. Tomorrow: Microelectronics in one word!
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Hands-on STEM in action! 💡⚡ Students in Christine Coulson’s classroom at Battle Ground Middle School are bringing coding and science to life with micro. We love seeing SCALE K-12 learning in action! #SCALEK12 #STEMEducation youtu.be/k6j28Z1RfzY?si=uc-B…
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💡 The lights go out. The microelectronics fail. Can you fix them? From summer teacher workshop to the classroom, The Day the Lights Went Out brings microelectronics to life.
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🎲 Could YOU design a digital dice? High school students in Roll the Dice design and build a working digital dice on a real PCB—programming, soldering, and testing their own prototypes. Led by Dr. Greg Strimel, with Noyce Master Teacher Fellows bringing the unit to life.
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🛡️ Guardians of the Grid ⚡Students become security engineers, exploring cybersecurity, microcontrollers & Trusted and Assured Microelectronics before designing a secure door lock system with a micro:bit. 🔐Led by SCALE K-12 teacher alumni Jonathan Woessner & Tom Kiesel.
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💧🌎 Summer Unit Spotlight: Water, Water Everywhere! In this middle school unit, students explore water quality, filtration, and microelectronic sensors to design an efficient way to make water potable. More classroom photos to come. 💧
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🚦🎉 Summer Unit Spotlight: Lights, Parade, Action! K–2 students design a model town and moving parade float while exploring coding, circuits, and microelectronics. Led by Emily Haluschak and Dr. Tamara Moore during our summer workshop! More classroom photos to come! 🎉
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📚 School’s back. Let’s turn the curiosity back ON. 💡 Welcome back, Boilermakers! New classes, new challenges, and new ideas are waiting to be tested. Here’s to a great semester of learning, discovery, and innovation! ⚡ #BoilerUp #BackToSchool #SCALEK12
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🔥 Summer Unit Spotlight: This Circuit’s on Fire! What happens when a phone gets too hot for its own good? Students combine Algebra, data analysis, mathematical modeling, and microelectronics to design a system that detects and alerts users when a cellphone begins to overheat.
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