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My high school didnt even offer drivers ed, couldnt have a football team because of drive-by shootings, shop class wasnt an option after my freshman year (or metal shop) because of a fight that occurred, there were no opportunities for this when I was coming up.

This is something high schools need to be investing in, literally this is what is fueling our future, I think it's amazing, good job.

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I'm going to disagree. It is really interesting but I think the amount of equipment, space and potentially dangerous chemicals (requiring extensive supervision for high schoolers) and the associated PPE and proper infrastructure to work safely aren't the best use of money/space for a high school. Old equipment also requires a lot of maintenance to keep running. You can learn about these things from a book, watching a plasma etcher or CVD furnace run isn't exactly very exciting after all. Might be worth doing a few of the simple processes but you need so much equipment to do the whole process. The lithography approach mentioned is interesting and could be cool in an undergrad/high school setting.

Right. A shared fab run is better: many designs are merged on one wafer, and the resulting chips are packaged and returned to the designers. The cost is split, each designer gets only a few chips per run. Right now, the turn-around time is lengthy, but, like PCB fab these days, that could change.

He did independently. Sure, there is a cost barrier but I don't the HS is one.

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