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The Cardboard Boat Project
By Sarah Matheny, Alumni of the Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP) Sarah Matheny, Science and Design Thinking Teacher from St. George’s Independent School, Germantown, TN, shares the work done by a 4th grade class called “The Cardboard Boat Project” Our fourth graders study explorers in the Fall and this year the teachers thought it would […]
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The Development and Implementation of a Tool for Encouraging the Practice of Student-Driven Documentation in Engineering Design
By Susan Bitetti, Staff Member With the increase of engineering design activities in K-12 classrooms comes a new set of challenges to educators and policy-makers. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of incorporating design tasks into formal education curriculum; however, a gap in research still remains surrounding how additional tools can best support students and […]
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CEEO Annual report 2015-2016
Do you want more information about CEEO? Check out our CEEO Annual Report that covers 2015 and 2016!
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Portable Maker Workshop
by Kristen Wendell, McDonnell Family Professor in Engineering Education I’m pleased to have this chance to tell you about the Portable Maker Workshop, a new tool for classroom engineering design from Pre-K to grade 8. At the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, we are always looking for more ways to support learners in creating functional, […]
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Novel Engineering Challenges
by Elissa Milto, Director of Outreach Building on Novel Engineering, the CEEO will be offering a series of three online Novel Engineering challenges. In January, we began work on a grant funded by the United Engineering Foundation that will support work on Novel Engineering Challenges. The goal of Novel Engineering Challenges is to broaden interest and […]
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Winternship 2017 Overview
by Dr. Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor, CEEO During the interim break between the Fall 2016 semester and the start of the Spring 2017 semester, the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) at Tufts University hosted its first ever “Winternship,” an opportunity for students staying local over winter break to spend the first two […]
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20th Anniversary
by Magee Shalhoub, CEEO Program Administrator This year, the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) was excited to celebrate our twentieth anniversary on October 23, 2016! The CEEO was established in 1996 and was one of the first pioneers to start thinking about engineering education. The CEEO works to bring engineering into K-12 classrooms […]
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Science of Sports
STOMPers, Christopher Camacho and Camille-Louise Mbayo, share their curriculum used during the Fall 2016 semester in a 5th grade class with 19 students. STOMP is our Student Teacher Outreach Program. If you want more information, visit STOMPnetwork.org Description of your curriculum Our curriculum covers the physics behind sports including soccer, football, ice hockey, sailing, and […]
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Dr. E’s Challenges
by Barbara Bratzel Dr E’s challenges encourage children to design creative solutions to open-ended problems and share their creations with other children around the world. The two Dr. E’s websites, Dr. E’s MINDSTORMS Challenges and Dr. E’s WeDo Challenges, post a new challenge each month. Children work on their creations during the month, then share […]
