By Elissa Milto This summer, the CEEO’s Community Outreach Fellows spent time in a local classroom leading computational thinking activities with middle school students. The activities were part of the Opportunities for Robotics, Building, and Inclusive Technology (ORBIT) research project,…
By Elissa Milto In Spring 2025, two Tufts undergraduate students worked at the Benjamin Banneker School’s afterschool program as part of the CEEO Outreach Learning Fellows (OLF) Program. The afterschool program was led by Jennifer Gordon, the school’s librarian, and…
By Elissa Milto At the end of August, Meredith Portsmore (pictured), CEEO Director, led a day-long, hands-on engineering workshop for thirty middle and high school students from Korea. The students traveled to the United States as part of a delegation…
By Elissa Milto In June, CEEO Community Outreach interns worked with two 5th-grade science classes at the West Somerville Neighborhood School, Somerville Public Schools, taught by Lorin Federico, to facilitate an engineering activity developed as part of the Design Talks…
Becky McDowell Chief Executive Officer STEM in Action Educational Consulting, LLC Tufts Teacher Engineering Education Program Alum A few weeks ago, I came across a powerful post by a local school board member and passionate advocate for youth in Sioux…
By Rob Hayes Tufts CEEO and Key’ah Advanced Rural Manufacturing Alliance (KARMA), a Native non-profit organization in the Navajo Nation have jointly expanded KARMA’s MakerPlace initiative to two community centers in the eastern part of the Navajo Nation. Founded as…
Chelsea Andrews, PI Kristen Wendell, Co-PI Greses Perez, Co-PI The Community-Tech-Press project, led by Research Assistant Professor Chelsea Andrews, Associate Professor Kristen Wendell, and McDonnell Family Assistant Professor Greses Pérez, is a 6th-grade science curriculum partnership between Tufts CEEO and…
Over the Fall 2023 semester, Professor Greses Pérez and PhD student G. R. Marvez co-taught a first-year engineering class that blended community-based engineering practices and the art of game design. During the class, students learned about iterative design processes, game…
Reposted from LEGO Education Community LEGO® Education and Tufts Center for Engineering and Education Outreach (CEEO) participated in the 2023 White House Easter Egg Roll to bring joyful learning experiences to kids.LEGO Education, along with Tufts CEEO, participated in the…
This year Tufts CEEO Learning Fellows (OLF) partnered with local informal education organizations in Boston, Malden, Medford, and Somerville to bring engineering to their K-12 students for 60-90 minutes each week. Tufts students worked in the same classroom each week…