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CEEO Alum Co-Authors New Book on Early STEM Education
Kristen Wendell, CEEO alumna and Assistant Professor of Education at UMASS Boston, recently co-authored the book Engaging Young Engineers: Teaching Problem-Solving Skills through STEM. Focused on early childhood (birth to age 5), the book offers theoretical and practical resources for parents and educators. Wendell explains the book’s origins: “Aware of the kind of work I […]
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Online Classes in Engineering Education for Teachers
OKEE.TUFTS.EDU The CEEO is excited to announce a new way to share our approach to K-12 engineering education. This month we’ve launched a new graduate-level program for teachers that helps to prepare them to engage in innovative, hands-on, design projects in their classroom. The Online K-12 Engineering Education program (OKEE) consists of four courses that […]
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Engineering Inquiry for All at Nedlam’s Workshop
April 21, 2015 by Daniel Wise When Malden High School principal Dana Brown invited Brian Gravel, Tufts’ Director of Elementary Education and CEEO alumnus, and CEEO faculty to see what could be done to reinvent his school’s large and semi-abandoned woodshop last spring, everyone was excited about the possibilities. In response to discussions with Brown, […]
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Alien Invaders & French Fries: Robotics at Tufts Fall 2014
April 21, 2015 by Merredith Portsmore Continuing the long-standing tradition of CEEO-inspired robotics courses, Ethan Danahy and Chris Rogers taught two dynamic hands-on classes this fall for first-year and upperclass engineering students. With the new LEGO EV3 technology to power his projects, Ethan’s ES 93 – Simple Robotics course tackled a range of projects from robots that walked in new […]
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CEEO Partnership with Malden’s Linden STEAM Academy
April 21, 2015 by Elissa Milto Beginning this January, the CEEO began a partnership with the Linden STEAM Academy in Malden. The Linden STEAM Academy is an innovation school for grades K-8. We wanted to work with Principal Richard Bransfield and the teachers at Linden because they have been working to incorporate STEAM (science, technology, engineering, […]