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ANNUAL REPORT 2016

MISSION: The mission of the SEMI Foundation is to support education and career awareness in the field of high technology.

VISION: Positively impact all who participate, including students, their parents, teachers and volunteers• Present a curriculum based in science, technology, engineering

and math (STEM) that stimulates interest in a high-tech career • Enhance the positive perception of tech companies based in

semiconductor technology • Partner with technology leaders, colleges and secondary schools

in each community to deliver the best program possible

SEMI HIGH TECH UVolunteer of the Year: Efren LopezWe are proud to announce Efren Lopez as the 2016, SEMI High Tech U Volunteer of the Year. Efren began teaching HTU modules in 2010 when KLA-Tencor fi rst became a sponsor. Each year, his Statapult module is rated as a class favorite on student surveys. In 2016, Efren taught the Statapult module at the very fi rst Taiwan HTU, also sponsored by KLA-Tencor.Efren’s career journey began after graduating from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with his B.S. in aeronautical engineering and getting hired as a systems engineer at General Electric. Then in 1995, Efren’s career path led to KLA-Tencor, where he began his new role as a technical instructor. As Efren puts it, “I wanted to get a peek into what was going on in the semiconductor industry.” Now as the Senior Director of Learning and Knowledge Services, Efren leads all training related to KLA products. He loves the industry, where he says, “something is always changing.”What fuels Efren’s passion for working with students? He remembers the diffi culty he had navigating the college experience alone. As the fi rst person in his family to attend college, Efren believes in the benefi ts of surrounding high school students with knowledgeable, caring adults who successfully graduated from college and entered the professional workforce. Efren is a walking example of the SEMI HTU mission, also volunteering at his church helping youth in crisis and steering young people toward college. And despite his busy life as a husband and father and his important work at KLA-Tencor that includes extensive travel, Efren always makes time for SEMI HTU. What advice does Efren have for students? “It can be daunting to make decisions at 18 that impact the rest of your life. But remember, it’s not all fi gured out. Even if you make mistakes, you’ll get there.”

SEMI FOUNDATION Reaches More Students Through New Certifi ed Partner Program With the goal of reaching more students and making SEMI High Tech U more affordable, the SEMI Foundation has launched its new Certifi ed Partner Program (CPP). In the CPP, select partners who commit to long-term participation in SEMI High Tech U are trained to independently deliver three programs over a specifi c period of time. Organizations participating in the program do so at a signifi cant cost savings. In 2016, Lower Columbia College of Longview, Washington and X-FAB of Lubbock, Texas both joined the new program. Said Lloyd Whetzel, President, CEO of X-FAB, “Our organization benefi ts immediately from this partnership with SEMI High Tech U. Community connections with suppliers and higher education are enhanced. And, the long term advantage of guiding young people to our workforce is huge. High Tech U’s ability to do all of that is documented. Becoming a Certifi ed Partner is a win-win for everyone involved.”

TOOLE FOUNDATION Funds New High Tech U CurriculumThanks to the generous donation from the Toole Foundation, new High Tech U curriculum will expose students to the worlds of entrepreneurialism and wearable technology. The curriculum is hands-on and teaches students the steps necessary to bring a concept to fruition from idea to business plan to a funding pitch. The module is delivered in the context of wearable technology through hands-on, team activities. Funded by a generous donation from the Toole Foundation, Dave Toole is himself, a successful entrepreneur after moving on from running GaSonics to making his mark in video and multi-media communications. “This industry was built on start-ups, so presenting concrete steps for students to follow in terms of bringing an idea to market is extremely valuable. It is exciting to see entrepreneurialism paired with the application of new product development in wearables associated with sensors, intelligence and communication. My sister Esther and I are happy to help keep SEMI High Tech U on the cutting edge by funding fresh and relevant curriculum.” The pilot module was delivered in March of 2016, in Silicon Valley at San Jose State University.

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MESSAGE from SEMI President Denny McGuirk2016 was a pivotal year for the SEMI Foundation. Propelled by our past success and guided by a new strategic plan, we

systematically moved forward to more purposefully serve students and teachers around the globe. Our mission continues to be to present high school students with a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curriculum that stimulates their interest

in a high technology career path. In 2016 we delivered our 200th High Tech U (HTU) since the program’s inception in 2002. We also took HTU to Taiwan with our partners at KLA-Tencor.

Innovation was also a theme for the SEMI Foundation in 2016. We unveiled our HTU Certifi ed Partner Program (CPP), which enables us to reach even more students while lowering the cost to our partners. We gave our semifoundation.org website a facelift and expanded our social media presence. Our new HTU innovation module aligns us with our corporate partners who need employees who will continue to innovate products and services. Read more about these exciting programs in the pages of this annual report.

The Foundation does not operate alone. Our corporate sponsors, trainers and volunteers continue to guide and support our mission to serve students. In 2016 we created the HTU Alumni Board, three graduates of our program who are wildly successful in their high tech career. With their guidance, we can continue to deliver an HTU program that is aligned to the needs of our high tech partners.

On a personal note, I would like to announce my retirement from the SEMI Board. If there is anything I’ve learned in the past fi ve years is to hire great people and then get the heck out of their way! It has been a career highlight to serve our sponsors, partners, teachers, students, volunteers and board. I am confi dent that I leave you all in the best hands.

Sincerely,

Denny McGuirkPresident and CEO, SEMI (Retired) President, SEMI Foundation Board of Directors

5,758STUDENTS REACHED THROUGH HTU AS OF DECEMBER 2016

Christine Chen—HTU 2006• High Tech U Class:

Silicon Valley Summer 2006• College Attended:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Degrees Earned: Bachelors and Masters of Electrical Engineering

• Current Position and Employer: Analog Design Engineer, Linear Technology Corporation

• Favorite HTU Memory: My favorite module was Wafer Fabrication. I am a very hands-on learner and doer, so to see the wafer transform in front of my eyes was very special.

• HTU Impact: I thought I might be a computer science major, but the exposure I had to the semiconductor

Sasha Sprock— HTU 2007

• High Tech U Class: 2007 at Intel and Applied Materials

• College Attended: Olin College of Engineering

• Degrees Earned: Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (BS ECE)

• Current Position and Employer: Program Manager on the Excel team, Microsoft

• Favorite HTU Memory: Seeing parts of the semicon- ductor fabrication process, especially the doping labs.

• HTU Impact: SEMI inspired me to be bold in my tech ambitions, and not let gender norms get in my way.

• Future Goals: Get a Masters Degree in Robotics.

• Advice to Students Considering HTU: Seek out things that look impossible now, and ask the questions you worry sound silly. What at first looked too difficult to understand can become your area of expertise, and those questions can get you there.

HIGH TECH U GRADUATES: Where Are They Now?

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industry during HTU was always in the back of my mind. As a sophomore, I switched to electrical engineering after taking a device physics class. In that class, I was reminded of HTU and the tour we took of the Intel manufacturing facility. We saw machines work synchronously to produce tiny identical circuits. Understanding this process is critical to being a good IC designer. For me, HTU was the start of it all!

• Future Goals: I would like to be more involved in exposing electrical engineering to high school students. While most students find it easy to learn programming skills, they lack a solid understanding of device engineering.

• Advice to Students Considering HTU: Even if you aren’t considering a career in engineering, please apply anyway! You’ll have fun and meet students from other high schools in your area.

SPONSORS by Location:ARIZONA Boeing Company Maricopa Community Colleges

CALIFORNIA Applied Materials FoundationFab Owners Association (FOA) Fairchild Semiconductor KLA-Tencor Lam Research Corporation Nikon Precision, Inc. San Jose State University Ultratech Western Digital

NEW YORK Applied Materials FoundationCapital Region BOCESConMed Edwards VacuumFab Owners AssociationHudson Valley Community College— TEC-SMART Mohawk Valley Community CollegeNational Grid New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) NYSTECOHM BOCESPrice ChopperRensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) SUNY Polytechnic—College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

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OREGON Applied Materials FoundationCascade MicrotechThermo Fisher Scientific (formally FEI Company)Intel Corporation Portland Community College

TEXAS Air LiquideApplied Materials FoundationFab Owners Association (FOA) KineticsLubbock Economic Development AllianceMKS Instruments Nikon PrecisionSamsung Austin Semiconductor TELTexas Tech UniversityUniversity of Texas—NASCENTX-FAB

WASHINGTON Fibre Federal Credit UnionLaboratory Science Institute Lower Columbia College Millennium Bulk Terminals

Weyerhaeuser Liquid Packaging

AUSTRIA Infineon Technologies Austria AGCarinthia University of Applied SciencesRegional Government of CarinthiaCity of VillachME2CME2ClusterThe Austrian Industry Association

KOREA Applied Materials FoundationDongwoo Fine-ChemExicon/YIKCKANCLOT VacuumSamsung ElectronicsSungkyunkwan UniversityVersum Materials

SEMI HIGH TECH U ALUMNI Advisory Board FoundedWe’ve seen HTU alumni graduate from college and join the high tech workforce in numbers we could only dream about in 2002. To stay connected with our distinguished alumni, the SEMI High Tech U Alumni Advisory Board was founded in 2016. SEMI President, Denny McGuirk, SEMI CFO, Rich Salsman and Foundation Executive Director, Leslie Tugman attended the December induction dinner where three alumni board members were presented with a crystal award for outstanding contributions:

• Tadeus Gunawan attended the 2003 HTU program sponsored by Intel, AMAT and San Jose State University. Tad owns his own engineering firm Aries Engineering.

• Kylan Nieh attended the 2007 HTU program sponsored by Lam Research Corporation and is a product manager at LinkedIn.

• Mishal Shah attended the 2006 HTU program sponsored by Lam Research Corporation and is a software quality assurance engineer at Apple.

SEMI HIGH TECH U, KOREA Documents Six Years of Success For the past six years, students in Korea have spent a portion of their summer vacation learning about the micro electronics industry by attending SEMI High Tech U in Seoul and the surrounding area. Since 2011, SEMI member companies have hosted students for an inside look at how the semiconductor and micro-electronics industry really works. By meeting industry volunteers who use STEM skills to perform their duties, students are able to see the relevancy of STEM studies back in the classroom. This connection spurs interest and diligence in their education. Metrics collected from the Korea programs demonstrate specific outcomes from attending the HTU programs including: increased knowledge of the microelectronics industry, an understanding of the educational pathway to careers in the microelectronics industry and 100% student satisfaction with the SEMI High Tech U experience. Many thanks to the financial sponsors who helped to make the 2016, Korea SEMI High Tech U program possible: Applied Materials, Dongwoo Fine-Chem, Exicon/YIKC, LOT Vacuum and Versum Materials.

Tadeus Gunawan (right) with Gen. Colin Powell, Ret.

COUNTRIES HAVE HOSTED

HTU PROGRAMS

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JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

Belle Wei joins SEMI Foundation Board of Directors

New sponsor, Kinetics, supports

Austin student HTU

KLA- Tencor hosts the first Taiwan SEMI High Tech U

Certified Partner Program launched at Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington, also sponsored by MBT, Steelscape and Kinder Morgan Foundation

SEMI High Tech U presented at US News

World Report Conference in Baltimore, Maryland

SEMI High Tech U Alumni Advisory

Board established

New sponsorsNYSTEC and ConMed

join OHM BOCES to support Mohawk Valley HTU

New HTU module “Entrepreneurship and Wearables” delivered

in Silicon Valley

Edwards Vacuumand 3D inCitespresent scholarshipsat 200th HTU

Human Calculator winners at TEL, Austin

200th SEMI High Tech U program delivered at CNSE in Albany, New York

1st CertifiedPartner Programdelivered at X- FABin Lubbock, Texas

Fairchild Semiconductor—Silicon Valley KLA-Tencor—Silicon Valley TEL—Albany, New YorkTEL—Austin, Texas Western Digital—Silicon ValleyX-FAB—Lubbock, Texas

FOA CONTRIBUTES Seed Money through Its Member Companies to Launch SEMI High Tech U Across the Country

HIGH TECH U CELEBRATES 200th Program

SEMI FOUNDATION HTU 2016 TIMELINE:

The SEMI Foundation celebrated the delivery of its 200th SEMI High Tech U program this July in Albany New York. HTU has been coming to the Albany area since 2003 and the Foundation is honored to recognize the many hosts and sponsors who have actively participated over the years, including: Applied Materials, Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), SUNY Poly—CNSE, National Grid and TEL. At the celebratory 200th program, forty-five students from Albany-area high schools participated in the three-day program which culminated with a graduation in the auditorium of CNSE.Tanner Muro, currently a senior at Burnt Hills, New York, attended the HTU program in 2013 and returned to serve as an ambassador at subsequent programs. He has since returned to serve as an ambassador at subsequent programs. Four years after his introduction to High Tech U, Tanner says he continues to gain value from his experience because the connections run so deep, “Through this High Tech U program, I have been exposed to engineers and to different career paths that ordinarily would not be available to me. Combined with the connections I have made, I feel that I am truly on a strong path to my dream career of as a software engineer.”Coinciding with the 200th program, SEMI Foundation released it’s updated Impact Report which documents the value of the High Tech U program. The study shows that 87% of High Tech U grads are enrolled in or have completed college—70% of those with a degree in a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) field. HTU students not only enroll in STEM fields but also persist in STEM education at a significantly higher rate— nearly five times higher than the national norm.Valerie Kelsey Ed.D., Deputy Director for Career and Technical Education (CTE) for the Capitol Region Board of Cooperative Educational Services had this to say about the value students take away from the experience, “SEMI High Tech U is unique and of tremendous value to the students who participate. I am aware of no other program where high school students are allowed a multi-day opportunity to network with industry workers, participate in hands-on STEM activities all while honing their soft skills such as public speaking and interviewing. We are honored to be a long time participant and supporter in bringing SEMI High Tech U to the students of our service district.”

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SEMI FOUNDATION Releases Impact Report, 2016 The SEMI Foundation released an updated version of its Impact Report in July, 2016. This report compiled student data that documents the ongoing and positive impact of SEMI High Tech U.Highlights of the report include:• 87% of HTU grads enroll in or complete their

higher education• 70% of HTU grads complete a degree in

a STEM field• 70% of HTU grads are employed in a STEM field To read the entire Impact Report, log on to the SEMI Foundation website: www.semifoundation.org

© 2017 SEMI®. SEMI High Tech U is a registered trademark of SEMI.

The SEMI Foundation Welcomes Your SupportWe welcome your fi nancial contributions, which help support the activities of the SEMI Foundation, including the Foundation’s scholarships and High Tech U programs.

Because the SEMI Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profitcharitableorganization,allcontributionsaretax-deductibleforU.S.taxreporting.

Forthosewishingtomakeacontribution,pleasemakecheckspayabletoSEMIFoundation,andmailto:

SEMI Foundation673 S. Milpitas BoulevardMilpitas, CA 95035

Donors are invited to consider planned giving opportunitiessuchasacharitabletrustorcorporate stock donations.

Volunteers Needed!

An essential component of the SEMI High Tech U program is the volunteer army that helps deliver our STEM curriculum. If you would like to support HTU in the classroom, please contact the SEMIstaffbyemailatsemifoundation@semi.orgor call 1.408.943.6900. For more information ontheSEMIFoundation,visitourwebsiteat:www.semifoundation.org.

SEMI Foundation Board of TrusteesY. H. Lee—Chairman, Wonik

John Biera—Principal, Central High School

Dana Ditmore—President, Oak Valley Consulting

Stanley Myers—President, S.T. Myers and Associates

Belle Wei, Ph.D.—Carolyn Guidry Chair in Engineering Education and Innovative Learning,

San José State University

ArthurW.Zafiropoulo—Chairman, CEO and President, Ultratech

Offi cers of the SEMI FoundationDenny McGuirk—President and CEO

Richard Salsman—Chief Financial Offi cer

Leslie Tugman—Executive Director

TEACHERS REACHED THROUGH TEACHER

EDITION AS OF DECEMBER 2016

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