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Post Campaign Update
by Laura Fradin, Education Specialist This past fall the Student Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) ran a crowdfunding campaign to help support the work it does in local elementary and middle schools. Our goal was to raise $5000 to support lesson development and implementation, and materials purchases. We raised $5,170 from 75 donors. These donors were […]
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Billund Builds Nature 2018: Teacher and Administrator STEM Workshop
by Susan Bitetti, Education Specialist This past November/early December, Tufts CEEO hosted Billund Builds workshop, a week long study tour for 36 educators and administrators from Billund, Denmark in collaboration with the Capital of Children. The CEEO faced an exciting challenge of addressing the needs and challenges of not just educators but also those of […]
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LEGO WeDo Afterschool Enrichment
By Sarah Matheny, TEEP Teacher Graduate Sarah Matheny, Science and Design Thinking Teacher from St. George’s Independent School, Germantown, TN, shares her work with kindergarten and first grade students in an afterschool enrichment project with WeDo 2.0. I was a student in Tufts University’s first Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP). While working through the program I […]
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Robotic Toy Testing
by Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science and at the CEEO In Fall 2017, Prof. Ethan Danahy once again taught his first-year introduction to engineering course “Simple Robotics” to 28 of the Tufts University freshmen engineering students. After a sequence of shorter, week-long projects (ranging from designing Robotic Animals and Astronaut Tools to creating […]
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ConnecTions in the Making 3-year NSF Research Project Launches Summer 2017
By Chelsea Andrews, Post Doctoral Research Associate ConnecTions in the Making: Elementary Students, Teachers, and STEM Professionals Integrating Science and Engineering to Design Community Solutions is one of the CEEO’s newest research projects, funded by the NSF’s ITEST program. Led by PI’s Kristen Wendell (Tufts) and Tej Dalvi (UMass Boston), the overall goal of this […]
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Novel Engineering Challenges Wraps Up Its Third Challenge Cycle
by Susan Bitetti, Education Specialist Between April and December 1, 2017, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) designed, developed, and hosted NovelEngineeringChallenges.org, a series of three open-ended, engineering design challenges based on children’s literature and hosted on an online platform as part of a grant funded by the United Engineering Foundation. The […]
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New Funding at the CEEO
The CEEO is thrilled to announce four new projects, funded by NSF, that launched this fall. These are new projects so we don’t have much to report yet but stay tuned for new tools, research and outreach tools. NSF STEM+C Designing Biomimetic Robots : This project will research the impact of an interdisciplinary bio-engineering-computational design […]
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Summer Vacation and ENE 151
By Kimberly Fogarty, TEEP student, Academic Technology Specialist at the Park School in Brookline, MA As a student in the Teacher Engineering Education Certificate program, I have come to expect and enjoy relevant readings and projects as part of my courses. Never before was this more true than when my ENE151 class and an amazing Teacher-In-Residence […]
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New faculty, staff and students at the CEEO
With the start of a new school year, the CEEO welcomes new faculty, staff and students. Check out who joined us this year! Elizabeth Broadbent Visiting Professor Associate Professor Elizabeth Broadbent is visiting for 4 months from the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Elizabeth is a vice chair […]
