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E-Team at the CEEO
By Laura Fradin, Educational Specialist Here at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), we are constantly testing new equipment and activities to teach engineering to kids. To help us, we need kids who are willing to try out the new tools and projects to see how well they work. The E-TEAM consists […]
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Digital Big Band 2018
By William Church, CEEO Collaborator From September 17th through the 21st I traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to attend and present at the Digital Big Bang 2018 conference. My visit was hosted by LEGO Education and their partners, Gammaco. The conference was part tech trade show and part education expo. It was all future facing. There were […]
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LEGO Engineering Conferences in India
by Barbara Bratzel, Educator in Residence Barbara Bratzel, an Educator in Residence at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), recently gave talks and ran workshops at two LEGO Engineering conferences in India. The two conferences, with the theme Driving Innovation in India through STEM Education, were the first LEGO Engineering conferences held […]
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CEEO’s Summer 2018 Undergraduate Internships
by Lynne Ramsey, Staff Assistant Every summer, Tufts Centering for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) hires between 30 and 40 Undergraduate Student Interns to work on various research, outreach initiatives, or operations support projects at the CEEO. This past summer we had 37 undergraduate students from Tufts and from a few other Universities working at […]
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Engaging Middle Schools Girls in Chemical Engineering
by Abey Klotz, Undergraduate Student in Chemical Engineering The National Science Foundation awards grants to young faculty to launch their research. Entitled CAREER grants, these grants task faculty with not only working on cutting-edge research but also sharing their work with the broader community. In Summer 2018, Professor Ayse Asatekin, from the Tufts Department of […]
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Welcoming new PostDoc, Jenn Cross, to Tufts CEEO
Jennifer Cross, Ph.D., is a new Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO ) where her primary research interests include investigating human-robot interaction in education contexts, developing novel programming interfaces for educational robots, and supporting diversity in engineering education. At the CEEO, she is teaching a course for the Teacher […]
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Summer 2018 Design and Engineering Workshops
By Laura Fradin, Education Specialist This summer, the CEEO hosted workshops for educators and students throughout the summer. As always, our workshop introduced participants to the CEEO approach to engineering design. Students and teachers came from the local area and as far away as Japan. Two hundred students, kindergarten through 12th grade, participated in ten […]
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2018 LEGO Education Symposium and Tufts STEM Education Conference
Tufts CEEO is excited to report on another successful LEGO Education Symposium and Tufts STEM Education Conference! The combined events took place from June 5th-7th on the Tufts campus and attracted 170 educators from over 30 countries in addition to highlighting some of the amazing research and outreach done by Tufts’ own faculty. Keynote speakers […]
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The EnLIGHTening Quilt
article by Fay Shaw, Post Doctoral Research Associate work by Kathleen Robinson and Amanda Strawhacker In the Spring 2018 semester, students in the Child Development course, Children & New Technology (CD114), collaboratively created a quilt for the Eliot-Pearson Early Childhood Makerspace. The goal of the course was to explore ways to better integrate technology into […]
