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 Dr. Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor, CEEO During the interim break between the Fall 2016 semester and the start of the Spring 2017 semester, the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) at Tufts University hosted its first ever…
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 and Amy Fleischer, Curator of Collaborations from the Occupational Therapy Department In Spring 2016, the CEEO joined together with Occupational Therapy (OT) and Human Factors (HF) to pilot a new location for Jumbo’s Maker Studio,…
by Aaron Johnson Over the past year, the CEEO has been working with LEGO Education China to develop StoryGames – a competition for Chinese students that uses the LEGO StoryStarter set. StoryStarter is designed to be a hands-on tool for…
by Dan Luo and Gabrielle Vukasin During this week, students from BNU listened to lectures and participated in activities run by faculty members from BNU, Tufts University and University of Tennessee. They were introduced to various activities related to STEM…
By Devyn Curley From July 6th to July 31st six high school students participated in the Robo-Hacking Internship at Tufts CEEO. The goal of the internship was to expose students to a variety of technologies, encouraging exploration through hands on…