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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 […]
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Summer 2016 DEW Workshops
by Alex Pugnali, Education Specialist at the CEEO This summer the CEEO ran a variety of 3-5 day workshops for students in Kindergarten through 8th Grade. While workshops differed in age range and theme, they all engaged students in the Engineering Design Process in fun and hands-on ways. Below are some highlights from the workshops […]
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Kingsley Montessori-Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary Through the Power of a Child’s Imagination
We are always looking to hear about what is going on with our local teachers and ask that you send us what you have been working on in your classroom. Melanie Flores, a CEEO Newsletter subscriber, shares her work on Kindergarten Engineering Design Workshops, originally posted on the Kingsley Montessori School website on July 26, […]
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Makerspaces at Queensland University of Technology
by Brian O’Connell, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering For the early part of 2016, I had the pleasure of being a visiting scholar at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. The original purpose of the trip was to assist them in setting up a makerspace. As is the way of things, plans made via email […]
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2016 LEGO Learning Symposium and Tufts STEM Education Conference
by Lynne Ramsey, Staff Assistant at the CEOO In June, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach hosted its first LEGO Learning Symposium since 2011 and its first Tufts STEM Education Conference. Both were two day conferences with an overlapping day. They welcomed educators from around the world and showcased the exciting STEM Education projects […]
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3D Printing and Calculus
by Fay Shaw, Postdoctoral Scholar The CEEO is exploring new ways to broaden making to departments outside of engineering. Jumbo’s Maker Studio teamed up with three Calculus 2 professors, Zac Faubion, James Adler and Sarah Bray to construct an innovative extra credit assignment. Students visited the Maker Studio to design artifacts generated by the math […]
