Engineering & Computer Science Programs for High School Students
Engineering, Computer Science, and Related Programs
Tufts Summer Accelerator
The Tufts Summer Accelerator is designed to provide students with a chance to immerse themselves in the undergraduate experience, allowing highly motivated students to engage in their own academic interests and develop their own ideas. Students enroll in two college-level seminars per two-week session, designed specifically for high school students. These seminars are small (15-20 students), discussion-based, interactive sessions in subject areas from across the University.
Choose from a variety of seminar topics including Social Psychology of Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism, Russia's war on Ukraine: why, why now, and what's next..., Introduction to Children's Media, Art, Truth, and Misinformation, and many more.
Meet our Program Leads
Merredith Portsmore, Program Director
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
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).
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