CEEO – Outreach, Tools, & Research

 

 

K-12 Student Comments

 

“We had good engineering classes this year. We learned about electricity. We made a pulley and a tower, too. It was a great time for us. It was the best day of my life when Phil and Michelle from Tufts University came to help us learn about engineering. We had fun. I really looked forward to those days.”


-Student from Winter Hill Community School

 

 

In response to a question asking to “Draw or List the Engineering Design Process”, one fifth grader wrote “First decide what are you doing. Then you have to think how to build. Then test it out. Then if it don’t work you have to try it again. Then try it until it works.”

 

 
 

What is STOMP?

 

Overview

STOMP stands for the Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program. The STOMP model is designed to create partnerships between STEM "experts" and K-12 classrooms to assist K-12 teachers in developing and implementing interactive STEM lessons. Through this model, "experts" in the form of university students, high school students, and industry employees collaborate with K-12 educators to develop curriculum and resources aiding the long-term sustainability of STEM education. K-12 teaches benefit from the partnership by gaining knowledge of STEM concepts, subsequently becoming more comfortable with engineering and implementing engineering-based activities in their classrooms. STOMP participants, or fellows, also benefit in that they are awarded an opportunity to work with their local community gaining communication, teaching, and leadership skills.

 

 

History

The Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) began at Tufts University in 2001. Since its inception, the success and impact on both the K-12 population and university students has inspired other institutions and industries to become part of the STOMP network.
Originally funded by a generous 3-year grant from the LLL Foundation, the success of STOMP at Tufts persuaded the foundation to fun the program for an additional 10 years so that the program efforts could focus on expanding and sustaining STOMP on a national level. To date, these expansion efforts are in full swing, with the 2006-2007 STOMP annual report detailing these successes.

 
 
 
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