Spring and Summer 2025 Pre-College Program applications are open!
Engineering & Computer Science Programs for High School Students
Spring and Summer 2025 Pre-College Program applications are open!
Summer Intensives
New
Other Summer Offerings
Tufts College Experience
This is a 6-week, residential offering where high schoolers embark of a preview of college life for an entire semester, including enrolling and earning college credits in traditional Tufts courses, as well as gaining life experience.
Tufts College Accelerator
This is a 2-week intensive, offered as either a residential or commuter offering with a chance for students to immerse themselves in the preview of the college experience, allowing these highly motivated students to engage in their own academic experience.
Summer Hallmark Courses
Chart your path to success with Hallmark Courses brought to you by Tufts Pre-College Programs. Experience life at Tufts University with college-level courses taught by experienced faculty, and specially designed for high school students to gain valuable insights into college-level learning.
Meet our Program Teams
Merredith Portsmore, Program Director
School of Engineering
Merredith Portsmore is the Director of the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, as well as a Research Associate Professor. She has the unique honor of being a “Quadruple Jumbo,” having received all her four of her degrees from Tufts University (B.A. in English, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, M.A. in Education, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education). Portsmore's research interests focus on how children engage in constructing solutions to engineering design problems. Her outreach work focuses on creating resources for K-12 educators to support engineering education in the classroom. She is the founder of STOMP, LEGO Engineering.com, and the online Teacher Engineering Education Program.
Magee Shalhoub, Program Staff - All Engineering Programs
School of Engineering
Magee Shalhoub (she/her series) is the Program Administrator for the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), having graduated from Suffolk University and receiving her BS in Sociology. She leads the daily operational tasks and processes for the CEEO, supporting several research faculty in pre- and post-grant management. Magee manages roughly 15 government/industry grants and 30 gifts/cost recovery/operational accounts, and orchestrates the development of new cost recovery programs within Tufts, including Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP), Engineering Design Lab (EDL), and Engineering Investigations (EI).
"I feel better prepared to put myself out there and to get involved in many different activities in college."
Engineering Design Lab Student, 2020
The T.A.s were extremely helpful. Even though Sofia had a very limited prior experience with coding, she never felt overwhelmed because she knew that she can always ask for help. Well Done by all the staff members!
Parent - Engineering Design Lab - 2021
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