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Tufts CEEO Secures Five New Grants in 2023
Biomimicry as an Authentic Anchor: Giving Teachers the Tools to Adapt an Interdisciplinary Middle School Curriculum Funding: NSF – DRK12 (This project is funded through TERC and CEEO is a subaward.) Project Dates: 8/1/23-7/31/26 Award Amount: $312,990 Project personnel: Kristen Wendell, PI, Ethan Danahy, CoPI Project description: This study will examine teacher choices and learning […]
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2023 ASEE Conference
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) graduate students and faculty attended the 2023 Annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference this June in Baltimore, MD. We were excited to have a combined fourteen presentations/accepted papers, resource exchanges, panel sessions, and posters this year. Below are the Tufts CEEO participants at ASEE for […]
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Characterizing engineering outreach educators’ talk moves: An exploratory framework
The NSF-funded Role Models in Elementary Engineering Education project has spent the past five years studying the interactions between undergraduate engineering students (outreach educators) and elementary students engaged in engineering design tasks. The project’s recent study, published in the Journal of Engineering Education, focuses on the talk moves employed by outreach educators when working with […]
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Joyful Learning At The White House Easter Egg Roll
Reposted from LEGO Education Community LEGO® Education and Tufts Center for Engineering and Education Outreach (CEEO) participated in the 2023 White House Easter Egg Roll to bring joyful learning experiences to kids.LEGO Education, along with Tufts CEEO, participated in the annual White House Easter “EGGucation” Roll, held on the South Lawn on Monday, April 10. Presented […]
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Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is excited to share one of our research projects, “Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Smart Engineering and English Language Arts in Upper Elementary Education” which is a “Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning” (RETTL) program funded by National Science Foundation (NSF). In this project, the […]
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Tufts CEEO visits Tokyo, Japan
In February 2023, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) summer undergraduate interns Soham Gaggenapally and Alan Deutsch visited Tokyo, Japan along with graduate student Yume Menghe Xu. The Japanese company Mobile Internet Technology Co., LTD. that makes Mind Render was happy with the work done by Soham and Alan. Mind Render and another […]
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Placemat Instructions – The development of a new type of instructions for learning engineering practices through robotics
Recent graduate Sara Willner-Giwerc’s doctoral research focused on supporting open-ended engineering activities in the classroom. Her work focused on a worksheet format, called “Placemats”, which provides scaffolded prompts that support solution diversity. Focused on robotics, the placemats share building and coding information that allows students to be creative and achieve functional solutions. This research was […]
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Nolop Makerspace Haunted House
This fall saw the 5th iteration of the annual Nolop Makerspace Haunted House. A collaboration between Tufts CEEO and the Nolop Makerspace with support from the Tufts School of Engineering, the late-October interactive experience featured project from Prof Ethan Danahy’s and Prof. Steven Bell’s introduction to engineering classes as well as a robotic arm from […]
