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Design and Engineering Workshops – Summer 2017
Over the summer the CEEO hosted 11 different workshops for children age five to eighteen. For younger students there were workshops that focused on exploring engineering while helping out characters from their favorite PBS shows and also learning the engineering design process through stories, songs and hands-on activities. There was a session of Girls Design…
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Summer Undergraduate Internships
Every summer, CEEO hires 30-40 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 a few other Universities working at the CEEO on the projects listed below. IoT myRIO Projects TEEP: Teacher Engineering Education Program High…
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An Afternoon of Learning and Hacking
by Whitney Crooks, PhD Graduate in Mechanical Engineering On Friday, July 7th, the CEEO hosted an afternoon of learning and hacking with MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten (LLK), which shares a love of LEGO with the CEEO and has a similar mission: “develop new technologies that, in the spirit of the blocks and fingerpaint of kindergarten, expand…
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Maker Workshop with Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
by Elissa Milto, CEEO Director of Outreach Dr. Daniel Hannon received a CEEO Innovation Grant from the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach to run a Maker workshop in order to help develop social awareness in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). He and Elissa Milto, CEEO’s Director of Outreach, structured this pilot workshop to…
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Maker Games
by Matt Mueller, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering Hello, my name is Matthew Mueller and I am a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering interested in simplifying interfaces for digital fabrication tools (like 3D printers and CNC machines) and developing ways for young students to engage in authentic engineering design. As part of the 2016/2017 CEEO…
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The Power of Strategic Under-Instruction
CEEO follows teachers on Twitter and are inspired by all the amazing photos, videos, antidotes, and reflections teachers share on Twitter every day. Mike Kulbieda, Design/Makerspace Coordinator from the International School of the Peninsula, caught our eye while searching through our Twitter feed. We asked Mike to send us some reflections on an engineering activity…
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Early Childhood Makerspace
by Amanda Strawhacker, Doctoral Student in Child Study and Human Development and Miki Vizner, Master’s Student in Child Study and Human Development Makerspaces are an exciting space to foster creative learning through building artifacts. These 21st century engineering workshops are a growing area of interest for both education researchers and school practitioners, and many resources (e.g.…
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Becky McDowell wins Program Excellence Award at the ITEEA Conference
Becky McDowell, a K-5 STEM Teacher at the Barrington 220 School in Wauconda, Illinois and TEEP Alum (2016) won the Program Excellence Award at the ITEEA Conference this year. The Program Excellence Award is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession and students and is designed to recognize exceptional technology and engineering education…
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“Making” in the White Mountains: Meet Our Partners at WMSI
by Susan Bitetti One of the incredible aspects about working at the CEEO is the opportunity to collaborate with some really wonderful and unique educational spaces. White Mountain Science Institute (WMSI) in Bethlehem, New Hampshire led by CEEO fellow Bill Church, is one such space. WMSI is not a typical afterschool setting; while the staff…
