By Kimberly Fogarty, TEEP student, Academic Technology Specialist at the Park School in Brookline, MA As a student in the Teacher Engineering Education Certificate program, I have come to expect and enjoy relevant readings and projects as part of my courses.…
With the start of a new school year, the CEEO welcomes new faculty, staff and students. Check out who joined us this year! Elizabeth Broadbent Visiting Professor Associate Professor Elizabeth Broadbent is visiting for 4 months from the Department of…
By Laura Fradin, Education Specialist With the start of the new semester, the CEEO welcomed STOMP Alum Laura Fradin as the new Education Specialist to work on multiple projects including LEGO Outreach, Novel Engineering, Design and Engineering Workshops, and various…
Over the summer the CEEO hosted 11 different workshops for children age five to eighteen. For younger students there were workshops that focused on exploring engineering while helping out characters from their favorite PBS shows and also learning the engineering…
Every summer, CEEO hires 30-40 Undergraduate Student Interns to work on various research, outreach initiatives, or operations support projects at the CEEO. This past summer we had 37 undergraduate students from Tufts and a few other Universities working at the…
by Whitney Crooks, PhD Graduate in Mechanical Engineering On Friday, July 7th, the CEEO hosted an afternoon of learning and hacking with MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten (LLK), which shares a love of LEGO with the CEEO and has a similar mission:…
by Elissa Milto, CEEO Director of Outreach Dr. Daniel Hannon received a CEEO Innovation Grant from the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach to run a Maker workshop in order to help develop social awareness in adolescents with autism spectrum…
by Matt Mueller, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering Hello, my name is Matthew Mueller and I am a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering interested in simplifying interfaces for digital fabrication tools (like 3D printers and CNC machines) and developing ways…
CEEO follows teachers on Twitter and are inspired by all the amazing photos, videos, antidotes, and reflections teachers share on Twitter every day. Mike Kulbieda, Design/Makerspace Coordinator from the International School of the Peninsula, caught our eye while searching through…
by Amanda Strawhacker, Doctoral Student in Child Study and Human Development and Miki Vizner, Master's Student in Child Study and Human Development Makerspaces are an exciting space to foster creative learning through building artifacts. These 21st century engineering workshops are a…