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2020 CEEO Award Winners
The Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) congratulates two of its members, Sara Wilner-Giwerc and Kristen Wendell, for their achievements. They are both the recipients of awards from Tufts University including the 2020 Tufts University School of Engineering Award for Outstanding Graduate Contributor to Engineering Education and the Henry and Madeline Fischer Award. …
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2020 CEEO Graduates
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) congratulates our 2020 graduates, Amanda Strawhacker, Hernán Gallegos, Dipeshwor Man Shrestha, and Fatima Rahman on their achievements. Amanda Strawhacker Amanda Strawhacker received her Ph.D. in Child Study and Human Development. Her dissertation was on Biodesign Education in Early Childhood: A Design-Research Study of the Tangible CRISPEE Technology…
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The Symbiotics System: Designing an Internet of Things Platform for Elementary School Students
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is excited to share Sara Willner-Giwerc, Chris Rogers, and Kristen Wendell of Tufts University just had a paper published in the International Journal of Design for Learning, “The Symbiotics System: Designing an Internet of Things Platform for Elementary School Students”. The Internet of Things (IoT) is any…
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CEEO Summer Workshops
This summer Tufts CEEO quickly adjusted to the changing times and created our first ever online workshops. In our online workshops, we will emphasize social interactions just as much as engineering. We hope that students will feel a connection to their classmates as well as the instructor and teaching assistant. All of our workshops will…
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Novel Engineering
By Elissa Milto, Director of Outreach This past April, Tufts CEEO’s first book was published — Novel Engineering, K-8: An Integrated Approach to Engineering and Literacy — by NSTA Press! The book, a collaboration between CEEO members past and present, was an exciting way for the authors to reconnect and synthesize research and lessons learned…
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5 Minute Classroom
by Sara Willner-Giwerc, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering 5 Minute Classroom is a collaboration between the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, White Mountain Science Inc., and FaceFront to create a video series for teachers by an amazing expert teacher (the one and only Bill Church) with the purpose of inspiring making in classrooms.…
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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…
