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…
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…
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…
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…
Although Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) was still working remotely in spring 2021, we were still able to connect with teachers in several ways. We have had Coffee hours (an informal virtual gathering of teachers sharing ideas),…
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) are excited to share 4 new research initiatives that have been funded recently. These research initiatives continue our mission for improving education through engineering. They support the research efforts of our faculty,…