Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) found success with a new model of international collaboration as part of the LEGO Foundation Playful Engineering-Based Learning (PEBL) project. CEEO enlisted the help of two Rwandan undergraduate students at Tufts to help Rwandan teachers and inspire their students.
Through PEBL, Tufts CEEO supported a number of different organizations that do engineering outreach in their communities. The work in Rwanda was a collaboration with the Maranyundo Initiative, a Massachusetts organization that built the Maranyundo Girls School (MGS), one of Rwanda’s top schools for girls in grades 7-12. MGS has an outstanding makerspace, and the girls have won many makerspaces competitions. The goal of PEBL was to start similar makerspaces in 20 more schools and to train 40 teachers to implement playful engineering learning.
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