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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.

Rethink Robotics Opens Up Baxter Robot For Researchers (May 6, 2013) - IEEE Spectrum

What's new in the world of LEGO Education (May 4, 2013) - LEGO Education UK

Presidential Awards: Ethan Peritz (May 2, 2013) - Tufts Tisch College Newsletter

LEGO engineering: How a little plastic is changing K-16 engineering education (April 30, 2013) -  Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science

Chris Rogers discuss LEGO Robotics and Engineering Education (May 1, 2013) - Smithsonian Magazine

Baxter and Chris Smith photo (April 25, 2013) - Rethink Robotics

Students Vs. Robots  (April 9, 2013) - Tufts Now

STOMPing Problems in Engineering Education (April 9, 2013) - Tufts Tisch College Newsletter

Ethan Danahy, Ben Shapiro & Brian O'Connell sit on virtual panel for "choice based assessments" (April 2, 2013) - ConnectedLearning.tv

Engineering Builds Steam in K-12 Education, STOMP (March 28, 2013) - EdWeek.org

Tufts Earns Place on National Community Service Honor Roll (March 19, 2013) - Tufts Tisch College Newsletter

Robotics Students Take on Dr. E's Challenges (April 1, 2013) - LEGO Education UK

GeekDad Discussion at Dinner: Stop the Spinning! (March 13, 2013) - Wired

GESS records another growth year (March 10, 2013) - Kaleej Times 

Ethan Danahy's visit to ICT in Education (March, 2013) - Gulf Times and The Peninsula

Babak Moaven receives NSF grant and uses CEEO resources for Engineering Research (February 28, 2013) - Tufts Daily

Lack of Guidelines Create Ethical Dilemmas in Social Network-Based Research (February, 2013) - Tufts SOE Engineering E-News

Computer Science (February, 2013) - Tufts SOE Engineering E-News

Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (February, 2013) - Tufts SOE Engineering E-News

Massive Open Online Courses pioneer in education technology (February 12, 2013) - Tufts Daily

McDonnell prof selected (February 4, 2013) - Tufts Daily

Research Asst. Professor Ethan Danahy in the Press: CES 2013 (January, 2013) - Tufts Department of Computer Science News

First endowed chair CS Ed professor, Ben Shapiro at Tufts (January 17, 2013) - Computing Education Blog

The first Rascal hackathon at Tufts University (January 15, 2013) - Rascal Micro Blog

The Playsurface brings a lot more to the touchscreen table than just touch video (January 13, 2013) - TechCrunch and AOL

McDonnell Foundation gifts $3 million to Tufts University (January 11, 2013) - St. Louis Business Journal

Scholars call for new ethical guidelines to direct research on social networking (January 11, 2013) - University of Wisconsin-Madison News

Lack of Guidelines Create Ethical Dilemmas in Social Network-Based Research (January 10, 2013) -  EurekAlert and Tufts Now

13 Accounts to Follow for All Things Entrepreneurship at Tufts (January 7, 2013) - BostInno

Education as Engineering: The Benefits of Combining Education with Engineering (December 20, 2012) - Communications of the ACM 

First Grade Engineers Help Three Little Pigs (December, 2012) - Conservatory Lab: Scholars in Action

CEEO Haunted House (November 14, 2012) - Tufts Jumble

Changing How We Think About Education (October 29, 2012) - Business Insider

Professor Ethan Danahy gives a lecture in Jordan (October 16, 2012) - Albawada.com

Professor Ethan Danahy is interviewed on his course 'Simple Robotics' (September 12, 2012) - Tufts Daily

NASA Astronaut to Discuss LEGO in Space at Tufts (August 15, 2012) - Somerville.patch.com

Astronaut Visits Tufts, Works with Young Students (August 14, 2012) - insidemedford.com

Somerville Kids Learn Engineering with LEGO (August 14, 2012) Wickedlocal/Somerville

NASA astronaut Mike Foreman will be at the CEEO (August 1, 2012) - NASA.gov

NASA Brings Wonder of Space Station to Boston (July 30, 2012) - PRNewswire

SAM Animation and LEGO bring Engineering to Life (July 24th, 2012) - iCreate to Educate

Engineering Land Movie (July 24th, 2012) - Tufts Jumble

Prof. Danahy in Beijing, China for Tufts Alumni Event (July 15th, 2012) - Tufts Alumni 

Dean Abriola of Tufts SOE Sees CEEO's Cutting-Edge Research Implement Directly in Tufts SOE Classrooms (April 18th, 2012) - Tufts Daily

Interest in Computer Science Rises at Tufts: CEEO Teaches Through Computational Thinking (April 17, 2012) - Tufts Daily

Rogers works to improve Engineering Education for students of all ages (April 2, 2012) - Tufts Daily

BU Working with Tufts CEEO (March 28, 2012) - BU.edu

BotLab featured in MakerBot TV (March 23, 2012) - youtube 

Medford Students Participate in Tufts Engineering Program (March 23, 2012) - Wickedlocal.com

Building Scholars, Tufts interviews Chris Rogers (Winter 2012) - Tufts Magazine

Tufts University is working hard to inspire kids to innovate through its Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (March 14, 2012) - thenextweb.com

Legos, Robotics & Musical Instruments: How Tufts Is Helping K-12 Students Get Excited About STEM (March 13, 2012) - BostInno

CEEO partners with Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (March 5, 2012) - Greentech Media

iCreate to Educate featured in Startups Seek to Master the Education Market (March 5, 2012) - Ed Weekly

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

Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (August 17, 2011) - iGeneration

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

Proposed Somerville charter school to focus on ESL (August 4, 2011) - Boston.com

Rhinebeck gets donation for Lego Robotics school project (July 27, 2011) - Daily Freeman

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

Engineers design learning for young students using LEGO curriculum (June 17, 2011) - Washington University, St. Louis: Science Outreach

Thoughts on the LEGO Engineering Symposium (May 27, 2011) - Click Brick

Interview: Melissa Pickering says, ‘iCreate to Educate’ (May 16, 2011) - Ed Tech Digest

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

2011 Women to Watch: Melissa Pickering (March 16, 2011) - Mass High Tech Business News

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"