“Making” in the White Mountains: Meet Our Partners at WMSI

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…

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Makerspaces at Queensland University of Technology

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…

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Investigating International Differences in Engineering Education

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…

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Telling Stories with LEGO in China

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…

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STEM 2015 International School at Beijing Normal University

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…

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The SMART Lab project in Indonesia

The CEEO has been supporting makerspaces in our own backyard and across the globe. For the past two years, the CEEO has been collaborating with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) to support Sampoerna University’s School of Education in…

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Engineering Inquiry for All at Nedlam’s Workshop

April 21, 2015 by Daniel Wise When Malden High School principal Dana Brown invited Brian Gravel, Tufts’ Director of Elementary Education and CEEO alumnus, and CEEO faculty to see what could be done to reinvent his school’s large and semi-abandoned…

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CEEO Partnership with Malden’s Linden STEAM Academy

April 21, 2015 by Elissa Milto Beginning this January, the CEEO began a partnership with the Linden STEAM Academy in Malden. The Linden STEAM Academy is an innovation school for grades K-8. We wanted to work with Principal Richard Bransfield and…

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