The Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is excited to engage 62 Tufts students from a variety of academic disciplines with STOMP this year. STOMP partners pairs of Tufts University students with school teachers in the greater Boston…
On June 5th to 7th, 2018, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) will be hosting the LEGO Education Symposium in conjunction with the Tufts STEM Education Conference at Tufts University. The CEEO is a leading innovator in K-12…
by Magee Shalhoub, Program Administrator The Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP), teep.tufts.edu, is for practicing elementary, middle, or high school teachers who are seeking to change or expand their approach through the integration of engaging hands-on engineering principles in their…
by Laura Fradin, Education Specialist This past fall the Student Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) ran a crowdfunding campaign to help support the work it does in local elementary and middle schools. Our goal was to raise $5000 to support lesson…
by Susan Bitetti, Education Specialist This past November/early December, Tufts CEEO hosted Billund Builds workshop, a week long study tour for 36 educators and administrators from Billund, Denmark in collaboration with the Capital of Children. The CEEO faced an exciting…
By Sarah Matheny, TEEP Teacher Graduate Sarah Matheny, Science and Design Thinking Teacher from St. George’s Independent School, Germantown, TN, shares her work with kindergarten and first grade students in an afterschool enrichment project with WeDo 2.0. I was a student…
by Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science and at the CEEO In Fall 2017, Prof. Ethan Danahy once again taught his first-year introduction to engineering course "Simple Robotics" to 28 of the Tufts University freshmen engineering students. After a…
By Chelsea Andrews, Post Doctoral Research Associate ConnecTions in the Making: Elementary Students, Teachers, and STEM Professionals Integrating Science and Engineering to Design Community Solutions is one of the CEEO’s newest research projects, funded by the NSF’s ITEST program. Led…
by Susan Bitetti, Education Specialist Between April and December 1, 2017, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) designed, developed, and hosted NovelEngineeringChallenges.org, a series of three open-ended, engineering design challenges based on children’s literature and hosted on…
The CEEO is thrilled to announce four new projects, funded by NSF, that launched this fall. These are new projects so we don’t have much to report yet but stay tuned for new tools, research and outreach tools. NSF STEM+C…