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Check in With STOMP Alum
Student Teacher Outreach Program (STOMP) is an outreach program where Tufts University students go into local classrooms and give K-12 students experiences in engineering design challenges. STOMP has been around for 20 years and we have a wonderful group of Alumni that have taken their STOMP experience and brought it into the world. Read below […]
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“Prime” Time for New Robotics!
by Alison Earnheart, Outreach Support LEGO Education launched its new SPIKE Prime robotics system in January 2020 and Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) was thrilled to have our students be among the very first to explore it the following month! Offering cutting edge technological experiences paired with research-backed teaching methods is our […]
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SNAPR – Snap, Narrate, Auto Post and Reflect
by Dipeshwor Man Shrestha, Master’s Student in STEM Education SNAPR – Snap, Narrate, Auto Post and Reflect is a tool that lets students capture and populate their e-portfolios automatically. In making/engineering, there is an emphasis on the final product and the ‘in-between’ stages are often ignored. We hope SNAPR will help students reflect on the […]
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STOMP Fall 2019
By Elissa Milto, Director of Outreach Each year STOMP sends pairs of Tufts students into classrooms to bring engineering to local students. Each pair is partnered with a teacher and meets with those students twenty to twenty-five times over the school year. The STOMP cohort this year consists of forty-five STOMP fellows from the School […]
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Designing Biomimetic Robots
by Fay Shaw, Postdoctoral Research Associate Designing Biomimetic Robots is an NSF-funded project that is a collaboration between Tufts CEEO and TERC. Together, we have designed an interdisciplinary curriculum for middle school students that combines biology, engineering, and computer science and is aligned with the NGSS. Students are tasked with building a robot that digs […]
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2019 Haunted House in Nolop Makerspace
By Amelia Becker, CEEO Undergraduate Intern The Second Annual Nolop Makerspace Haunted House took place on Wednesday, October 30th, 2019. Sponsored by the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), Nolop Makerspace, and the School of Engineering (SOE), the haunted house featured a wide collection of student-made interactive exhibits. These spooky machines were made […]
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Exploring Acid Bleed at the Conn-Selmer Facility in Elkhart, Indiana
By Walker Wind, Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) has a research project exploring a chemical reaction that occurs on some musical instruments called acid bleed. Walker Wind, CEEO Summer Intern and Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) Fellow, has been working for CEEO this past summer on this […]
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2019 Sustainability Champions Ceremony and Reception
by Jessica Echeverria, Undergraduate Operations Assistant We are very pleased to announce the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) has received two distinctions at the 2019 Sustainability Champions Ceremony and Reception. Firstly, the CEEO has been recognized by the Office of Sustainability as a Platinum level green office! This recognition builds off the CEEO’s […]
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Summer 2019 at Tufts Center for Engineering and Education Outreach
by Anika Mody, Undergraduate Operations Assistant at CEEO Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) had a very busy summer over at 200 Boston Ave, Medford. We employed 30 undergraduates to work on various research projects funded by industry and government grants. Undergrads worked at the CEEO June through mid-August. We also ran ten […]
