Illuminated Heart Boxes In today’s post we are honored to have Catie Nasser sharing her Illuminated Heart Boxes, an origami project that students of many ages may enjoy (with varying levels of scaffolding). Catie Nasser is a tech-savvy K-6 art educator who dabbles in a variety of creative pursuits, ranging from papercutting, printmaking, paper engineering, […]
Chibitronics & CodeJoy Partner Up to Support Teachers & Schools
Play, Magic , & a New Partnership Collaborative Post by Amanda Jeane Strode & the Chibitronics Team Welcome to this special conversation between Jie Qi, CEO of Chibitronics, Shiela Lee, Head of Education at Chibitronics, and Amanda Jeane Strode, Director of Learning at CodeJoy. In this blog, we bring together these innovative educators to discuss […]
Registration Open for Summer Pathfinders 2025! Free Chibitronics Supplies & Hands-on PD for Teachers
Are you a US-based K-12 public or charter school teacher or librarian? Start with Art: STEAM Learning with Chibitronics Paper Circuits If you are a K-12 public or charter school educator or librarian based in the United States, we have an opportunity for you (or someone you may know)! This summer, as part of Infosys […]
Pathfinders 2024 Started with Art
Chibitronics Team Put the “A” in STEAM During two weeks in August, members of the Chibitronics team hosted over 60 public school teachers and librarians (from coast to coast) during one of our most successful virtual professional development courses to date. We are pleased to report that our Infosys Summer Pathfinders Course, Start with Art: […]
Registration Open for Summer Pathfinders 2024: Free Chibitronics Supplies & Hands-on PD for Educators
2025 Update: If you are interested in registering for the 2025 Summer Pathfinders Course, please go to our 2025 Pathfinders Registration information page. Are you a teacher or librarian? If you are a K-12 public or charter school educator or librarian based in the United States, we have an opportunity for you (or someone you […]
Pathfinders 2023 Recap—Start with Art: STEAM Learning with Chibitronics Paper Circuits
This July, two cohorts of K-12 public school teachers participated in our nine-day online course, Start with Art: STEAM Learning with Chibitronics Paper Circuits as part of the Pathfinders Summer Institute 2023. Funded by generous support from the Infosys Foundation USA, we shipped 69 kits to educators from Maine to California. As so often happens, […]
Registration open for Summer Pathfinders 2023! Free Chibitronics supplies and hands-on PD for teachers
We are excited to announce that we are participating again this year in the Infosys Pathfinders Summer Institute 2023! This summer’s course will introduce paper circuits, STEAM and how to integrate these activities across subject areas. Participating teachers will receive full scholarships for hands-on virtual professional development and a FREE kit of supplies to learn […]
Join us for Pathfinders Summer 2022 – Paper Circuits and Coding Across the Curriculum
K-12 US public school teachers! Chibitronics is excited to join Infosys Foundation’s virtual #InfyPathfinders Summer Institute, exclusively at Infosys.org/PathfindersOnline. Use this link to create a free account today to register for our course PAPER CIRCUITS AND CODING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM. Apply now for and choose one of summer’s 7-week courses: Every Wednesday, 7:00 PM – 9:30 […]
Chibitronics at Pathfinders Winter Institute 2021
Chibitronics will be back at Infosys Pathfinders for Winter Institute 2021! Never been to Pathfinders? This three-day event will be an engaging computer science and maker education professional development experience for K-12 public teachers. Teachers can choose from 18 different computer science and maker education courses. All K-12 US public school teachers from all disciplines […]
Featured Educator – Phet Pease
We recently asked a few teachers who attended our course at Infosys Pathfinders’ Winter Institute to share some advice with the teachers attending our Virtual Summer Institute course. Khamphet “Phet” Pease is an award-winning STEM teacher, who has taught at Wilson Middle School in San Diego for the past 14 years. She teaches 6th-8th grade […]
Featured Educator – Chris Awad
We recently asked a few teachers who attended our course at Infosys Pathfinders’ Winter Institute to share some advice with the teachers attending our Virtual Summer Institute course. Chris Awad has been teaching for eight years. He currently teaches technology to pre-K through 8th-grade students in an urban inner-city district in New Jersey. He has […]