STOMPers, Christopher Camacho and Camille-Louise Mbayo, share their curriculum used during the Fall 2016 semester in a 5th grade class with 19 students. STOMP is our Student Teacher Outreach Program. If you want more information, visit STOMPnetwork.org Description of your…
by Barbara Bratzel Dr E’s challenges encourage children to design creative solutions to open-ended problems and share their creations with other children around the world. The two Dr. E’s websites, Dr. E’s MINDSTORMS Challenges and Dr. E’s WeDo Challenges, post…
by Alex Pugnali, Education Specialist at the CEEO This summer the CEEO ran a variety of 3-5 day workshops for students in Kindergarten through 8th Grade. While workshops differed in age range and theme, they all engaged students in the…
We are always looking to hear about what is going on with our local teachers and ask that you send us what you have been working on in your classroom. Melanie Flores, a CEEO Newsletter subscriber, shares her work on…
by Brian O'Connell, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering For the early part of 2016, I had the pleasure of being a visiting scholar at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. The original purpose of the trip was to assist them…
by Lynne Ramsey, Staff Assistant at the CEOO In June, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach hosted its first LEGO Learning Symposium since 2011 and its first Tufts STEM Education Conference. Both were two day conferences with an overlapping…
by Fay Shaw, Postdoctoral Scholar The CEEO is exploring new ways to broaden making to departments outside of engineering. Jumbo’s Maker Studio teamed up with three Calculus 2 professors, Zac Faubion, James Adler and Sarah Bray to construct an innovative…
by Aaron Johnson, Post Doctoral Research Associate In addition to my work on international difference in engineering education, I am leading a second research project supported by the CEEO Innovation Fund. I have been working with Paul Grogan, an Assistant…
by Brian O'Connell, Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering With the support of the CEEO Innovation Fund, Ph.D. student Brian O’Connell set out to develop a way to understand better and utilize the makerspace resources at Tufts University. With the assistance…
by Aaron Johnson, Post Doctorate Research Associate The impact of the CEEO reaches far beyond the boundaries of metropolitan Boston. The CEEO has hosted students, postdocs, faculty members, and visitors from Switzerland, Korea, Chile, Spain, and China, among others. Members…