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  • Use of a Documentation Tool at Imagination Station in New Zealand

    by Susan Bitetti Through my work at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, for the month of January 2016, I was given the amazing opportunity to do volunteer work and research at Imagination Station, a LEGO-centric, not-for-profit education and play center in Christchurch, New Zealand. Since the major earthquake that struck in 2011, major…

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  • International Workshops

    by Barbara Bratzel The end of January and beginning of February was a lively time in the CEEO workshop room: we hosted two international groups of students. The last week of January, seven students from China, ages nine to eleven, plus two of their teachers, spent four days with us. The students were winners of…

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  • Robotics Education at Tufts University (Fall 2015)

    by Dr. Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor at the CEEO The Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is closely involved in the running of two robotics classes within the School of Engineering at Tufts. Dr. Ethan Danahy (Research Assistant Professor at the CEEO, with secondary appointment in the Computer Science department) teaches the first-year…

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  • Novel Engineering at the Linden STEAM Academy in Malden, MA

    by Bridget McCaffrey Last year, the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach began a relationship with the Malden Public Schools, going in to their Linden STEAM Academy, a K–8 innovation school that places more of a focus on “hands-on”, project-based learning. Starting in January of 2015, members of the CEEO began collaborating with the teachers,…

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  • STOMP Classroom Case Study: Engineering Superheroes

    By Laura Fradin, CEEO STOMP Fellow 5th grade classroom at Norcross Elementary School in Arlington, Massachusetts One of the biggest obstacles for STOMPers is creating a cohesive unit throughout the semester.  Many STOMPers choose to do an “Introduction to Engineering” unit that introduces civil, mechanical, chemical, aerospace, environmental, and other types of engineering into a…

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  • STOMP Classroom Case Study: Robotics and the Environment

    by Laura Coughlin, CEEO STOMP Fellow On Wednesday afternoons, the NXT robotics elective at the International School of Boston (ISB) holds its two-hour class, a class filled with 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students eager to learn the mysteries of programming.  This past semester my STOMP partner and I had the pleasure of teaching in…

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  • ES93 Haunted House

    This year CEEO hosted another spooky haunted house filled with robots from Research Assistant Professor Ethan Danahy’s ES93 Simple Robotics Course that was co-taught by Aaron Johnson, Postdoctoral Research Associate. This course allows freshman to explore multiple disciplines of engineering before choosing their major and the one taught by professor Danahy uses LEGO Robotics EV3 kits which allows students…

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  • Billund Builds Music, a Perspective from a CEEO PhD Student

    Matthew Mueller, CEEO PhD graduate Student, took part in a project called Billund Builds Music (BBM). BBM was a full week of project based and play based learning where children designed, built, and performed on their own musical instruments. It took place in Billund, Denmark, the Capital of Children, and more than 4,000 children actively…

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  • Telling Stories with LEGO in China

    by Aaron Johnson Over the past year, the CEEO has been working with LEGO Education China to develop StoryGames – a competition for Chinese students that uses the LEGO StoryStarter set. StoryStarter is designed to be a hands-on tool for teaching literacy and language lessons. LEGO Education China and the CEEO both wanted to see…

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