Welcome to the international area of the Junior IOT website. With this area we’d like to showcase our exploration with ECSA, the European Chip Skills Academy. For more information: https://chipsacademy.eu/
European Chips Skills Academy
What is ECSA:
ECSA is an EU-funded project dedicated to providing skills anticipation backed by hard data, which will then inform initiatives around upskilling, reskilling, and matching. But that’s not all – ECSA is also set to bring together a wide range of key players in the microelectronics ecosystem for the first time. ECSA aspires to become the go-to hub for everything skills-related in the world of chips, shaping the future of education in the electronics and microelectronics space and opening new opportunities for collaboration between educational institutions at all level (secondary school, VET providers, and higher education) and industrial leaders.
Follow ECSA here:
- Linked-in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-chips-skills-academy/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/europeanchipsskillsacademy/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@EuropeanChipsAcademy
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@euchipsskillsacademy
The ECSA Junior IOT Soldering Workshops
Junior IOT and ECSA worked togather to make the international version of the Junior IOT soldering workshop available at: https://learn.chipsacademy.eu/courses/2981 (please first create a login)
The ECSA Junior IOT Soldering Workshop is positioned as a fun and inspirational approach to inspire young people to join today’s field of technology.
This is the exact same workshop that was part of the first day in the first Junior IOT Challenge in 2016. Having been taught over the years in 1.000’s of classes in the Netherlands, the soldering workshop has found it’s current shape and form: inspiring, playfull and safe. Materials, equipment, colors, language and approach is designed to include all learners, the whole class will join.
The goal of this workshop is to stimulate the learner in their own discovering and investigation. In every step of the workflow, we promote learners to help each other. Workshops are designed to each add one inspiring new step, and learners can progress at their own initiative. Theory and themes are omitted from our approach to these workshop, as we believe these are part of the school’s skillset – and each school can select their own approach to their own follow-up
Materials are chosen to be the simple basic components of the industry: leds, batteries, buttons and switches. These are the insides of the technology components of the modern world around us. Once learners feel able to help creating the modern world, our work is complete.
“At this moment, getting youth into our industry is a key requirement”
Martin Westmoreland, R2i Semiconduction Applications
