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Due to the CEEO's local outreach efforts, surrounding communities, schools, and other Tufts departments have recognized the Center and its programs over the last several years. These articles of recognition are below.

K-12 Engineering Education Article quotes Chris Rogers (January 23, 2012) - ASEE Prism

CEEO is featured in the Internet Scout Project Report  (August 5, 2011) - Scout.wisc.edu

Merredith Portsmore goes to Washington University of St. Louis to teach LEGO Engineering (July 12, 2011) - news.wustl.edu

Brian Gravel wins Presidential Award for Outstanding Citizenship (May 16, 2011) - Tufts.edu

CEEO is part of NSF Strategic Plan for fiscal year 2011-2016 (May 4, 2011) - NSF.gov (page 15)

Verizon Awards Grant for Science, Math Education (April 20, 2011) - TuftsDaily.com

iCreate and SAM: Learning STEM by doing Stop-Motion Animation (April 11, 2011) - NewtonSTEM.org

Verizon Donates to Tufts CEEO for Girls STEM Education (April 7, 2011)- Bizjournals.com/Boston

Verizon to Donate $60,0000 to Tufts University CEEO (April 7, 2011) - Boston.com

Verizon: Foundation Awards Grant to Tufts CEEO (April 7, 2011) - 4-traders.com

Broken Airplane Education Blog get's excited about SAM Animation  (March 9, 2011)- brokenairplane.blogspot

Verizon Foundation Awards Grant to Tufts CEEO to Engage Girls in Engineering (March, 2011)- activecitizens.tufts.edu

What do LEGO and sand have in common? Both are featured in lessons taught by Tufts undergrads engineering students to K–12 students (2010) - NSTA

With NSF Support, Engineers from Tufts University are Bringing Engineering to Young Students (2010) - NSF.gov

CEEO is featured in Nat Geo Amazing episode that featured LEGO Robotics - Youtube.com

CEEO featured in International Online e-Exhibition - EXPO21XX.com

STOMP the School Yard: Waltham Company takes part in Mentor Program for Local Fifth-Graders - Daily News Tribune 

A Whole new Space Program: NASA funds Tufts - BostonGlobe.com

Six locations in MA will receive funding to support summer enrichment programs for numerous students in STEM education - Mass.Gov

Mass. in line for $1.5 million in NASA grants (May 10, 2010) - Mass High Tech

Graduate Students Win Top Tufts Awards (May 4, 2010) - Tufts School of Engineering

CEEO Provides Opportunities for Engineering Students to be Inventors (March 31, 2010) - Tufts E-News

Homegrown Talent Heads Up CEEO: Engineers Merredith Portsmore, Ethan Danahy, and Morgan Hynes will enhance the School of Engineering's research and educational programs at the CEEO (March 2, 2010) - Tufts Engineering News

McDonnells Pledge $3 Million to Transform Engineering Instruction in K-12 Classrooms (March 2, 2010) - Tufts Engineering News

Making the Next Wallace & Grommet: Stop-motion Animation Software Developed at Tufts will get a Wider Audience with Release of New Kids' Book (February 3, 2010) - Tufts Journal

National Instruments Introduces LabVIEW Education Edition Graphical Software to Inspire Hands-On Learning: Collaboration with Tufts University Results in Teacher-Tested Technology for High School Engineering Education (November 9, 2009) - CNN Money.com

Special Feature: Physics in Play by Jamie Schock (September 16, 2009) - eGFI

STOMP Goes to Google by Marjorie Howard: A Tufts program that uses LEGOs to teach engineering to school kids spreads to California (August 5, 2009) - Tufts Journal

Let Go of My LEGOs by Alice Daniel (June 2009) - American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) - Connections

Does Service Learning Produce better Engineers and attract women to the field? (June 3, 2009) - Tufts Press Release 

LEGOs and Learning by Marjorie Howard: A video and article highlighting STOMP! (May 20, 2009) - Tufts Journal  & YouTube Video

Designing Engineering Education Success: A Glimpse into Merredith Portsmore’s Engineering Education Research (May 2009) -  Tufts Engineering News

SAM Animation is spotlighted on the CAST website as an exemplary web-based science, math and engineering learning environment (April 6, 2009) - CAST Spotlight

Do Helping Helping Hands Make for Better Engineers? (April 1, 2009) - Tufts Journal

SAM Animation is applicable both in the K-12 and college classrooms as Tufts engineering students prototype user-friendly movie making tools (March, 2009) - SAM Animation

Professor Chris Rogers Strengthens Engineering and Develops Citizen Engineers (March 2009; Vol. 6, No. 3) - Active Citizen

Common / Royal Commission in Jubail host the first forum for engineering the robot in the Middle East (March 3, 2009) - Saudi Press Agency (translated)

Tufts School of Engineering Annual Report (2007-2008) - "Engineering Education Innovation" (pg 5-6)

NSF Supports Professor Chris Swan to Study the Role of Service Learning in Improving Engineering Education (September, 2008) - Tisch College Newsletter

Tufts Engineering eNews (September 13, 2008) - "Doin' the Dinosaur STOMP with CEEO"

Tufts Daily (August 17, 2008) - "Lucky Schoolchildren Will Play With Robots"

Star Bulletin (June 16, 2008) - "Science Alliance: The Kids on Campus Program Has Students Use LEGOs to Learn About Technology and Math"

Tufts University (May 2008) - "President Bacow Honors 13 Students for Outstanding Citizenship - Kaitlyn Conroy"

Tufts Magazine (Winter 2006) - "A Tribute to Everyday Heroes - Merredith Portsmore"

Prism (October 2006) - "Let Go of my LEGOS"

LEGO Education (August 8, 2006) - "Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmatic...Robotics"

Tufts Daily (November 3, 2005) - "Just How Much Candy Can a LEGO Bulldozer Carry?"

ROBOT (Winter 2005) - Popeye the Robotic Crab: A walking LEGO MINDSTORMS with pneumatically-driven legs

Berkshires Week (July 22, 2004) - "The Scientific Method: An Innovative New Program is Introducing Girls to Engineering and Physics"