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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 […]
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Summer 2021 CEEO Internships
This summer of 2021, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) employed 35 Tufts undergraduate interns to work in CEEO and remotely over the months of June, July, and August. Summer interns did a variety of different research and outreach work this summer. Below are a few highlights of projects that summer interns worked […]
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Engineering Design Lab: Robotics and Programming with Tufts CEEO
For its third year in a row, the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) collaborated with Tufts’ University College to bring the Engineering Design Lab (EDL) pre-college course to high school students across the globe. The goal of the program is to expose students to the fundamentals of robotics and programming, culminating in […]
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Zine Machine – A Tinkering Kit Involving Math and Making
With an intention of designing hands-on mathematical learning experiences, Khushbu Kshirsagar, a graduate student of the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), designed Zine Machine – A tinkering kit involving math and making. Under the guidance of Tufts faculty member Kristen Wendell, Khushbu created Zine Machine (Zine Machine), a paper-based mathematical tinkering kit […]
