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Dr. E’s Challenges: Summer 2020
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is pleased to announce that after taking a year hiatus, Dr. E’s Challenges has returned with two new and exciting challenges. Hearing from teachers, parents, and other educators a need for ideas and inspiration during this time of at-home and remote learning, we developed two LEGO-based challenges…
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Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) and Dr. Ethan Danahy on “Flipped Classrooms”
Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor at Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), was asked to speak by Tufts Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) to discuss his use of “flipped classrooms” and remote teaching in a recent interview with Arduino Education. However, the COVID-19 pandemic caused Professor Danahy to shift to…
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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…
