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 Mohammed Tonkal During my PhD at Tufts, I spent several years exploring a simple but powerful question: What happens when kids work together like real engineers? Not just following instructions—but managing tasks, solving problems, and building something meaningful as…
By Ulrik Rosenberg, Learning Consultant at Tåsingeskolen, Svendborg, Denmark You don’t need to know how to read to enjoy a story. Long before children learn to decode letters, they listen, imagine, and understand narratives. This doesn’t diminish the importance of…
Tell us about where you are from and what your childhood was like. I’m from Oakland, CA, where I lived with my parents and older brother until coming to Tufts for undergrad. I have lots of cousins and both sets…
Mechanical Engineering Student Sophie Hankin gives us an update on the Smart Playground project and the studded animals she transformed into Smart Modules. I designed the Smart Module stuffed animals as part of the Smart Playground Project. This project is…
Tell us about where you are from and what your childhood was like. I’m from Jeddah, a major city in Saudi Arabia where I grew up and spent most of my life. I’m the middle child among four siblings—three brothers…
In the spring of 2024, Tufts CEEO debuted a new online course, ENE 193: Engineering Design with ArtificialIntelligence for Middle and High School Teachers. The course was designed to support middle and high schoolteachers in exploring artificial intelligence (AI) within…
In the summer of 2024, CEEO faculty and students engaged in two hackathons with the new Arduino Alvik robotics kit. The Alvik Robot features connectors for LEGO Technic, so students were able to use their LEGO Education SPIKE Prime and…
Graduate student Milan Dahal details his journey from a small village in Nepal to Tufts where he has been developing low-cost Smart Motors, while earning a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Tell us about where you are from and what your…
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is excited to share one of our research projects, “Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Smart Engineering and English Language Arts in Upper Elementary Education” which is a “Research on Emerging Technologies for…