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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…
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Engineering Investigations High School Program
From July 12 to July 23, 2021, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) hosted Engineering Investigations (EI), a virtual program designed to expose high school students to what an education and career in various engineering disciplines can look like. Facilitated by undergraduate Teaching Assistants (TAs) from chemical, mechanical, civil and environmental engineering, as…
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Draw2Code: Low-Cost Tangible Programing for Young Children to Create Augmented Reality (AR) Animations
By Hyejin Im, Master’s Student in Human Factors Engineering In April 2021, Hyejin Im, graduate student of Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), successfully defended her master thesis, Draw2Code: Low-cost tangible programming for young children to create AR animations. Advised by Tufts faculty member Chris Rogers, Hyejin created Draw2Code, a paper-based computational kit…
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Creating Opportunities for Teachers through Virtual Programming
Although Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) was still working remotely in spring 2021, we were still able to connect with teachers in several ways. We have had Coffee hours (an informal virtual gathering of teachers sharing ideas), contracted professional development, and have planned an exciting summer of opportunities for teachers. Tufts CEEO…
