By Laura Fradin, Education Specialist This summer, the CEEO hosted workshops for educators and students throughout the summer. As always, our workshop introduced participants to the CEEO approach to engineering design. Students and teachers came from the local area and…
Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) has an exciting list of research based Design and Engineering Workshops (DEW) for kids during the summer of 2018. We have a variety of different themed workshops for all different age…
by Susan Bitetti, Education Specialist This past November/early December, Tufts CEEO hosted Billund Builds workshop, a week long study tour for 36 educators and administrators from Billund, Denmark in collaboration with the Capital of Children. The CEEO faced an exciting…
by Ethan Danahy, Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science and at the CEEO In Fall 2017, Prof. Ethan Danahy once again taught his first-year introduction to engineering course "Simple Robotics" to 28 of the Tufts University freshmen engineering students. After a…
by Whitney Crooks, PhD Graduate in Mechanical Engineering On Friday, July 7th, the CEEO hosted an afternoon of learning and hacking with MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten (LLK), which shares a love of LEGO with the CEEO and has a similar mission:…
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 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…
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…