The Outreach Learning Fellow program (OLF) is a year-long program that places Tufts undergraduate and graduate students in local classrooms to provide engineering experiences to K-8 students from diverse backgrounds who might otherwise lack access to hands-on engineering. Working within the same classroom all year, fellows collaborate with teachers to tailor activities to the classroom and individual student goals, and to better connect with students’ experiences, cultures, and communities. The Tufts students participate in weekly seminars that address progressive engineering education teaching, community relationship building, and how to support the social-emotional learning of young students with special attention to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ). A range of materials are used for activities, including LEGO robotics. Tufts provides all materials so that students can use technologies that would otherwise be cost prohibitive for their schools to purchase.
WHO WE ARE
![Victor Aguilar](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2024/01/Victor-Aguilar-scaled.jpg)
Victor Aguilar
Psychology, 2024
![Rachael Azrialy](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/RachaelAzrialy-scaled.jpg)
Rachael Azrialy
Electrical Engineering, 2025
![Jean Pascal Cyusa](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2024/01/Talha-Basharat-scaled.jpg)
Talha Basharat
Master’s in Mechanical Engineering Human-Robot Interaction
![Jean Pascal Cyusa](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/pic-2.jpg)
Jean Pascal Cyusa
Mechanical Engineering, 2026
![Ava Delaney](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2024/01/Ava-Delaney-Close-scaled.jpg)
Ava Delaney
Child Study & Human Development, 2025
![Juila Drost](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/IMG_5874.jpg)
Julia Drost
Chemical Engineering, 2026
![Miela Efraim](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/1695141551615.jpg)
Miela Efraim
Masters in Human Factors Engineering, 2024
![Kate Lindley](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2024/01/IMG_2892-scaled.jpeg)
Lia Fortuño
Human Factors Engineering, 2025
![Louise Li](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/IMG_3907.jpg)
Louise Li
Undecided, 2027
![Kate Lindley](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/senior-photo.png)
Kate Lindley
Mechanical Engineering, 2027
![Migdalia Lopez](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/372_3.jpg)
Migdalia Lopez
Mechanical Engineering, 2025
![Migdalia Lopez](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2024/01/Beverly-Medina-2-scaled.jpg)
Beverlyn Medina
Mechanical Engineering, 2025
![Shweta Nair](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/IMG_3931.png)
Shweta Nair
Masters in Human Factors Engineering, 2027
![Ariana Olivares](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-10-28-at-3.45.30 PM.png)
Ariana Olivares
Mechanical Engineering, 2026
![Marissa Zelten](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2024/01/Denise-Winkfield-scaled.jpg)
Denise Winkfield
Mechanical Engineering, 2026
![Marissa Zelten](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/marissa.png)
Marissa Zelten
Child Study/ Human Development and Education, 2025
WHERE WE WORK
![Winter Hill School](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/winter_hill_web-3.jpg)
Winter Hill Community Innovation School
Somerville, MA
![Winter Hill School](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/img_3595-scaled.jpg)
Parlin School
Everett, MA
![Samual Adams School](https://sites.tufts.edu/ceeoolf/files/2023/11/Adams-Elementary.jpg)
Samuel Adams Elementary School
East Boston, MA