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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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Mini-Makers Workshop
by Brian O’Connell This past summer, the CEEO held its first Mini-Makers workshop for young makers to learn how to use all the tools in Jumbo’s Maker Studio. A group of 9 students from 6th to 8th grade spent the week learning how to use the laser cutter, print on the 3D printers, how to […]
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STEM 2015 International School at Beijing Normal University
by Dan Luo and Gabrielle Vukasin During this week, students from BNU listened to lectures and participated in activities run by faculty members from BNU, Tufts University and University of Tennessee. They were introduced to various activities related to STEM education. Major topics included: LEGO kits in classrooms, Arduino programming, Novel Engineering and robotic design. […]
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The LEGO-centric Classroom
by Barbara Bratzel Educators are asked to teach many different things these days, above and beyond their usual subject matter. Technological literacy. Project-based curriculum. Soft skills such as collaboration, communication, and resilience. Ideally, these topics reinforce each other and excite kids about learning. In real life, day to day, teachers can find juggling them overwhelming […]
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Girls Design and Engineering Week
by Jessica Swenson and Kerrianne Marino The Girls Design and Engineering Week workshop focuses on engaging girls in engineering through hands on activities emphasizing robotics, building, and making. This past summer, two workshops were held at the CEEO. The first week was comprised of a group of returning attendees that began with seed funding as […]
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“Engineering, Earthquakes, and More!” Civil Engineering Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)
by Annie Levine How can you tell if a structure has been damaged by strong winds, heavy loads, an unexpected storm, or even an earthquake? Sometimes you can see the damage visually, but more often than not, the damage goes far beyond what the eye can see. A growing field in Civil Engineering is Structural […]
