In the first class, students prepared for the month-long course. Students learned each component of the kit and how to set current limits on power supplies to keep from frying the parts!

The first few days of class were filled with simple circuits to help students get acquainted with using a breadboard. This meant focusing on architecture with clean wires lying close to the board.

To learn the concept of resistance, students used their power sources to burn wire turning it solid, liquid, and finally to gas. They applied the concepts learned to real life examples like a grocery store.

Transistors were introduced allowing students to make complex gates to manipulate LED lightbulbs with the push of a button. These gates include the "OR", "NOR", "AND", "NAND", and more.

Using two half adders and an "OR" gate, students worked together to build a binary calculator. Each student focused on their own breadboard to connect to the whole.

Students learned how to use photo cells to manipulate circuits with light, allowing them to make nightlights!

Students used the power of capacitors to charge and discharge the components with aluminum which caused sparks.

Students used their knowledge of capacitors to create the astable multivibrator. This circuit uses two capacitors to create blinking lights. The size of the capacitor dictates the amount of time until the light changes.

After learning and building the inner workings of logic gates, Students switched to integrated circuit chips to expand the possibilities of their circuits.

Students use concepts learned from the binary calculator to create a even more powerful circuit: the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). This circuit can add and subtract with not just positive numbers, but also negative.

The 555 timer and the Shift Register (74164) chips were instrumental to the last few assignments completed in the class. These circuits included the binary counter and mouse trap game.

Students use the 555 Timer chip and the Shift Register Chip to create their first puzzle circuit, the mouse trap game. In this game, a blinking light races around the circle, and the goal is to use the stop button to land on the green LED.

In the last week, students learned how to solder. Students picked from kits which included an AM Radio, sound detector, voice changer, metal detector, love tester, dice, and stop light. After making, students were able to take their creations home!