This option is for students who have completed Form 3-4 Electronics and would like to continue their studies in this area. Øyvind Nydal Dahl the author of Electronics for Kids has a course/membership called Ohmify – Learn Electronics Online. There is a monthly or yearly membership fee and many projects for students to try for themselves.

I have not tried it out myself, but one long-time SMH student has, and his mom graciously offered a review and her thoughts. I hope this helps you know if it is the right option for your child.

My son started it last school year and is still doing it. I paid for a year membership and there is enough material on the website to keep him busy for many years! Right now he works on it 2-3 times a week along with 1-2 days of biology. He completed the getting started course, which was a perfect review of the material covered in your electronics guide while at the same time going deeper and covering completely new material. There were lots of hands on projects of building circuits, some without any written directions (just schematic drawing). It was challenging! Now he has moved on to arduino projects, using an arduino board. I would definitely recommend the website, but here are some thoughts.

1. It’s not really an electronics “course” but rather a website with lots of information and different electronics projects for electronic gurus/hobbyists to try.

2. I think it is too pricey if a student is only planning to spend one term on it.

3. The student would need to be self motivated and self directed to pick and choose what he wants to do. It’s designed for someone who is truly interested in learning more about electronics. There is a getting started “course” but after that there are endless projects to try and new ones posts almost every week. The student will mostly learn by doing, so very different from reading then narrating.

4. Mr Dahl is super responsive and helpful. He offered to look over my curriculum if I set one up (I didn’t) and also recommended the arduino projects after the getting started course because high schoolers usually enjoy that.

5. The forum is also very useful. We frequently ran into problems with a project not working out as it should. You can post questions on the forum and we always got a response, although we weren’t able to complete every project.

6. It can be frustrating when a circuit won’t work as it is supposed to, but that is just the case with electronics!

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any more questions.

~Sarah