Becky McDowell, a K-5 STEM Teacher at the Barrington 220 School in Wauconda, Illinois and TEEP Alum (2016) won the Program Excellence Award at the ITEEA Conference this year. The Program Excellence Award is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions…
by Susan Bitetti One of the incredible aspects about working at the CEEO is the opportunity to collaborate with some really wonderful and unique educational spaces. White Mountain Science Institute (WMSI) in Bethlehem, New Hampshire led by CEEO fellow Bill…
by Sam Woolf, Masters Student in Mechanical Engineering With the support of a CEEO Innovation Grant, we built and tested 1234Cast, a weather forecasting portal that caters to young children. Weather is all around us, and we interact with it on…
First-Year Intro-to-Engineering Simple Robotics by Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor, CEEO Once again, in Fall 2016, Professor Danahy taught the Tufts School of Engineering's introduction to engineering course Simple Robotics to first-year engineering students. Leveraging the LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics hardware…
By Elissa Milto, Director of Outreach, CEEO April 1st was the launch of Novel Engineering Challenge- a series of three online Novel Engineering design challenges. The first of the three challenges is based on the book Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by…
By Sarah Matheny, Alumni of the Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP) Sarah Matheny, Science and Design Thinking Teacher from St. George's Independent School, Germantown, TN, shares the work done by a 4th grade class called "The Cardboard Boat Project" Our…
By Susan Bitetti, Staff Member With the increase of engineering design activities in K-12 classrooms comes a new set of challenges to educators and policy-makers. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of incorporating design tasks into formal education curriculum; however,…
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by Kristen Wendell, McDonnell Family Professor in Engineering Education I’m pleased to have this chance to tell you about the Portable Maker Workshop, a new tool for classroom engineering design from Pre-K to grade 8. At the Center for Engineering Education…
by Elissa Milto, Director of Outreach Building on Novel Engineering, the CEEO will be offering a series of three online Novel Engineering challenges. In January, we began work on a grant funded by the United Engineering Foundation that will support…