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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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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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