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…
CEEO Director of Outreach Elissa Milto recently won a Tufts Distinction Award, so we sat down to chat with her about the award and her more than 20 years at Tufts CEEO. Tell us a bit about yourself and your…
This semester, Outreach Learning Fellow Victor Aguilar, A24, wrote a book for and about his students and used it for a Novel Engineering activity. Victor talks about his inspiration for the book and the impact it had on the students…
Anmol Baruwal is an undergraduate at Springfield College studying Computer Science. He recently completed his 2021 summer internship at the FET(Future Education technology) lab at Tufts CEEO(Centre for Engineering Education and Outreach). He is fascinated by machine learning and its…
By Elissa Milto, Director of Outreach This past April, Tufts CEEO’s first book was published -- Novel Engineering, K-8: An Integrated Approach to Engineering and Literacy -- by NSTA Press! The book, a collaboration between CEEO members past and present,…
Join us for the firstNovel Engineering Conference in St. Louis! Novel Engineering is a project based out of Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) that uses classroom literature – stories, novels, and expository texts – as the basis…
By Becky Cogbill, 4th Grade Teacher in Medford Public Schools I started my journey with Novel Engineering through the course offered by Tufts. I was a relative newcomer to teaching engineering and eager to learn how to do so effectively. Novel…
By Laura Fradin, Educational Specialist Here at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), we are constantly testing new equipment and activities to teach engineering to kids. To help us, we need kids who are willing to try…
by Susan Bitetti, Education Specialist Between April and December 1, 2017, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) designed, developed, and hosted NovelEngineeringChallenges.org, a series of three open-ended, engineering design challenges based on children’s literature and hosted on…
By Elissa Milto, Director of Outreach, CEEO April 1st was the launch of Novel Engineering Challenge- a series of three online Novel Engineering design challenges. The first of the three challenges is based on the book Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by…