Tell us about where you are from and what your childhood was like. I grew up in Broomfield, Colorado with my two (twin, younger) sisters, my parents, and my grandmother. My two main interests as a kid were reading, music…
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 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…
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…
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) graduate students and faculty attended the 2023 Annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference this June in Baltimore, MD. We were excited to have a combined fourteen presentations/accepted papers, resource exchanges,…
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,…
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) is excited to share Sara Willner-Giwerc, Chris Rogers, and Kristen Wendell of Tufts University just had a paper published in the International Journal of Design for Learning, “The Symbiotics System: Designing an…
by Dipeshwor Man Shrestha, Master's Student in STEM Education SNAPR - Snap, Narrate, Auto Post and Reflect is a tool that lets students capture and populate their e-portfolios automatically. In making/engineering, there is an emphasis on the final product and…
by Fay Shaw, Postdoctoral Research Associate Designing Biomimetic Robots is an NSF-funded project that is a collaboration between Tufts CEEO and TERC. Together, we have designed an interdisciplinary curriculum for middle school students that combines biology, engineering, and computer science…
By Walker Wind, Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) has a research project exploring a chemical reaction that occurs on some musical instruments called acid bleed. Walker Wind, CEEO Summer Intern and Student Teacher…