Project summary

For my summer 2022 internship I worked at the Center for Engineering Education (CEEO), working to come up with novel tools for STEM education. The CEEO is an offshoot organization of the Tufts mechanical engineering department that has, over decades of pioneering research and advocacy, become an integral part of the department’s identity. Within the CEEO I worked in the Future Educational Technologies (FET) Lab. The FET Lab has a long-running collaboration with LEGO, and, among other goals, seeks to innovate ways LEGO can be used to enhance STEM education.

I and another intern were specifically tasked with utilizing a Japanese educational app, Mind Render, to devise ways to integrate physical (LEGO) and virtual (Mind Render) educational mediums to provide seamless STEM educational experiences. Specifically, we developed ways to connect the Lego SPIKE Prime hub to Mind Render via WiFi, Bluetooth, and serial.

See more info about what we did over the summer here.

  • Mind Render Workshop
  • MR Workshop 2
  • Car driving demo (sending data)
  • Upgraded car driving (sending and receiving data)
  • Golf (sending and receiving data)
Car driving demo using the SPIKE Prime hub’s built-in gyro sensor
Golf demo with two-way communication using a wheel sensor and the hub’s built-in accelerometer to provide golfing inputs.

In February 2023 my partner and I traveled to Tokyo to meet the creators of Mind Render, give feedback on the app, run workshops on Novel Engineering, and also talk about STEM education to a consortium of Japanese parents and public officials.

  • Poster with our faces on it
  • Novel Engineering Workshop
  • Photo with the creators of Mind Render
  • Call with parents and officials