participants wearing clean room suits
Session 1:
June 29–July 1, 2027

Tuesday–Thursday
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Session 2:
July 6–8, 2027

Tuesday–Thursday
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Ages 12–14

Registration for 2027 camps will open December 3, 2026.

Get Excited About Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math!

Do you like to solve problems and enjoy competitive challenges? Would you like to experience hands-on science activities, especially related to the semiconductor (computer chip) industry?

Experience what scientists and engineers do every day!

A three-day day camp for youth ages 12–14. We will hold an equal number of slots for boys and girls until the week before the start of camp.

Chip Camp is hosted by the BYU Electrical, and Computer Engineering Department with the help of professors: Hawkins, Mazzeo, Chiang, Wirthlin, Allen, and Harrison. Chip Camp counselors are students from the IMMERSE program.

Session 1
June 29–July 1, 2027

Tuesday–Thursday
Includes Lunch

$219
Registration closed at 9:00 AM on July 9, 2026
Session 2
July 6–8, 2027

Tuesday–Thursday
Includes Lunch

$219
Registration closed at 9:00 AM on July 9, 2026

Thanks to the generous donations of our sponsors limited scholarships are available. To apply for a scholarship fill out the application. The scholarship application will close May 10, 2026.

Refunds

Refunds minus a $25 processing fee may be granted until the Friday before the camp. Refund requests must be submitted in writing. Refund requests can be emailed to ceprograms@byu.edu. NO REFUNDS will be granted after the Friday before the camp.

What to Expect

  • Competitive Challenges: 3… 2… 1… ROCKET LAUNCH! Build and launch rockets and master Newton's three laws of motion.
  • Problem-Solving: Use statistics and precision to aim catapults at ships and grid spaces in an exciting game of Battleship.
  • Chemistry: Start a reaction.
  • Engineering Solutions: Program an Arduino vehicle to knock down cans.
participants programming an arduino device
participants designing their flying disk
  • Electronics: Build an integrated circuit.
  • Biomed: Construct a circuit and analyze signals using pulse oximeters and oscilloscopes.
  • Cleanroom Discovery: Step into the lab to explore microfabrication and photolithography firsthand.
  • Innovation: Design your own flashing, flying disk.
participants programming circuits

Schedule

8:30 a.m. Drop Off
9:00 a.m. Welcome Presentation
9:15 a.m. Activities
Around Noon* Lunch
After Lunch Activities
4:00 p.m.** Pick Up

* Lunch is not at a set time and depends on which group the student is in, but is generally within an hour of noon (anytime between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.). Lunch for each group lasts 30 minutes.

**Students must be picked up at the roundabout in front of the Wilkinson Center at 4:00 p.m. each day. Parents/guardians must be there by 4:00 p.m. Chip Camp staff are student volunteers there will be no personnel to sit with your student if you are late to pick up. There is no need to get out of your car at pickup; tell the staff your child’s name and they will walk them to your vehicle.

Activities

Tuesday
  • Fab Process
  • Circuits
  • Deposition
  • Microcontrollers
Wednesday
  • Cleanroom
  • Catapults
  • Rockets
  • Carduino
  • Machine Learning
Thursday
  • Edison's Bridge
  • Logic Maze
  • Pulse Ox
  • LED Frisbees