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Summer Work on the Justice-based Engineering and Data science Initiative
The Justice-based Engineering and Data science Initiative (JEDI) is an NSF-funded research project focused on adding sociotechnical content and reasoning to a first-year data science course, Introduction to Computing for Engineering (ES-2), and studying the impact. In addition to coding skills and data science approaches, students also now learn how to consider the social, economic, […]
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LEGO Tech and Play Visit to Rwanda
As in-person interaction slowly returns to our lives after years of pandemic-induced isolation and virtual meetings, many people are still coming to terms with returning to daily commutes to work. For Alison Earnhart, Tufts CEEO project administrator for the Tech and Play initiative, work took her 6,871 miles away to Kigali, Rwanda in early May. […]
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Outreach Learning Fellows
This year Tufts CEEO Learning Fellows (OLF) partnered with local informal education organizations in Boston, Malden, Medford, and Somerville to bring engineering to their K-12 students for 60-90 minutes each week. Tufts students worked in the same classroom each week to support hands-on engineering design. There was also a weekly seminar for fellows that addressed […]
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Tufts University awarded $2.8 million grant from LEGO Foundation to support local organizations
Supporting and Amplifying Local Organizations Engaged in Playful Engineering-Based Learning Post-COVID is a grant funded by LEGO Foundation awarded to Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), Tufts DevTech Research Group, and Tufts Department of Education to support a diverse group of outreach organizations in the United States, Nepal, and Rwanda. With this grant, Tufts CEEO will build a collaboration […]
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Smart Motors at Little Singer Community School on Navajo Nation
In November 2021, Navajo filmmaker and Sundance Film Fellow Keanu Jones and Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach project administrator Alison Earnhart visited a classroom in northeastern Arizona with a mission: to document authentic experiences of students engaged in creative, meaningful work in robotics and artificial intelligence. The resulting films (a 12 minute feature […]
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Wio Terminal for Novel Engineering
Anmol Baruwal is an undergraduate at Springfield College studying Computer Science. He recently completed his 2021 summer internship at the FET(Future Education technology) lab at Tufts CEEO(Centre for Engineering Education and Outreach). He is fascinated by machine learning and its application in building efficient systems. This interest of his led him to work on Smart […]
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Haunted House 2021
The 4th Annual Nolop Makerspace Haunted House took place on Friday, October 29, 2021, and was the best one yet! Last year was fully virtual, so it was extra exciting to be back in-person this year. The event was sponsored by the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), Nolop Makerspace, and the School […]
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Learning Assistants in Mechanical Engineering
At Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), Isabella Stupios is a Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering (ME) who is currently working on a study that looks at characterizing Tufts’ Mechanical Engineering Department’s Learning Assistant (LA) program under Lave and Wenger’s “community of practice” framework. LAs are undergraduate students who facilitate student thinking and […]
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Integrating Learning Through Play Approaches in Nepali Classrooms
The LEGO Foundation Tech and Play initiative connects organizations around the world that are finding ways to make the introduction of technology in classrooms more playful. Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is collaborating with organizations in partner countries like Rwanda, Kenya, Brazil, and Denmark as a specialist partner in making learning through […]
