The 4th Annual LEGO Engineering Symposium was hosted by the CEEO at Tufts University on June 8-10, 2010. The symposium offered a series of presentations and hands-on development labs to nearly 90 participants over the course of the 3 days. The presentations and development lab summaries can be downloaded.
Tuesday presentations
- Wallenborg & Brevik – Elementary school engineering, anchored in technical demanding missions, as motivating factor for children’s tipping point experience
- Tina Grotzer – Learning About Causal Complexity and Climate Change
- Rikke Anderson – Bring Energy to your classroomwith LEGO MINDSTORMS Education
- Merredith Portsmore – Exploring how experience with planning impacts first grade students’ planning and solutions to engineering design problems
- Martina Lehser – Robotics in Education
- Justin Osterstrom – Building Energy Paradigms Using LEGO Serious Play
- Barbara Bratzel – Teaching Energy with LEGO Mindstorms
- Donald Larson – Horse hair hydrometer
- Tuesday 6/8/13 – End of day wrap
Wednesday presentations
- Travis Franck – Climate Change Mental Models
- Tim Lannin – Engineering for Non-Engineers
- Mark Lockett (Teacher Award recipient) – The Construction of Knowledge and creating Tipping Points
- Osmin, Lim, Chua (Teacher Award recipients), Robotics in Singapore
- Debbie Liu – Engaging students in 21st century scientific thinking patterns about climate change with LEGO
- Brian Gravel – Show Me What You Know- Using multiple representations to enhance science and engineering experiences
- Amber Kendall – Exploring science through engineering might be fun, but do students really learn any science?
- Al Hurst – The Green Classroom: Using Powerpoint and the Computer
- Wednesday 6/9/13 – End of day wrap
Thursday presentations
- Chris Rogers (Director, CEEO) – The future of ROBOLAB and LabVIEW.
- Ethan Danahy (CEEO) – New Educational Tools from the CEEO
- Dean Kaman – Key note
Development labs
- Tipping Points and Multiple Representations
- Tipping Points and Construction of Knowledge (Serious Play)
- Climate Change and Young Children Wrap Up
- Climate Change and Data Logging Wrap-up
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