NuVu brings creative education to students around the world. Our mission is to empower the next generation of young designers, entrepreneurs, makers and inventors who will impact their communities and world through their work and ideas.

We are more engaged when we are solving meaningful problems.

We should actively pursue new ideas and diverse perspectives.

Students thrive when they set their own personalized learning goals.

Collaboration is key to addressing complex challenges.

Our Core

Mission

Our Core

Beliefs

Innovation

Empathy

Design

Impact

Our Four

Pillars

NuVu is proud to be different from traditional schools; the modern world requires a bold new approach to education.

Innovation

Our curriculum is composed of three main elements: Studios, Seminars and Supplemental Coursework

Curriculum

At the heart of NuVu’s curriculum are studios, a series of immersive, interdisciplinary, three- to four-week projects

Studios

Seminars meet once per week and last for an entire trimester. They cover topics that students have expressed interest in learning more about. Through reading, writing and discussion, seminars allow NuVu students to explore topics that extend and inform each year’s studios.

We integrate supplemental coursework into the overall academic program. Two blocks per week are devoted to this work, allowing our students to take accredited academic courses through specialized online providers and with support from NuVu’s coaches.

Seminars

Supplemental Work

Our schedule provides focused blocks of time for students to work on their studio projects and also includes specific blocks for seminars and supplemental coursework.

NuVu Academic Year Schedule

Nufolio is a visual learning platform that brings student work to the forefront, where ideas, prototypes, feedback, and presentations can all exist in a single location. Nufolio allows students and teachers to collaborate inside and outside the studio through a shared workspace, supporting iterative design and a culture of innovation.

Platform

A VR studio that offers students the opportunity to leverage advanced creation and storytelling techniques to build explorable worlds.

Compiled Germination

Exploring and testing the integration of cutting-edge research in autonomous technology into existing vehicular design.

Autonomous Golf Cart

In a world that often encourages us to focus on ourselves, NuVu believes that transformative change is only possible when we also reach outward.

Empathy

A wheelchair attachment that could make lever-powered wheelchairs more accessible to everyday users

Hand Drive

Using fashion as a tool for social justice and celebrating the beauty of difference

Juxtapose

Our focus on design ensures that students are active participants in the learning process.

Design

While the design process can be messy, our students consistently find that it gives them creative freedom

Design

Process

Learning about the ways in which our world is evolving through storytelling and animation via advanced CGI and VFX

Momentary Futures

Our alumni consistently report that their time at NuVu was transformational

Impact

A group of NuVu students designed a playstructure for the new playground construction in the south end of Danehy Park.

Playground

NuVu students are remarkable in that they are well-versed in creative thinking and analytical skills valued by colleges and employers

Babson College

Brown University

Carnegie Mellon University

Harvard College

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Northeastern University

Rhode Island School of Design

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Olin College

Parsons School of Design

Simmons College

Union College

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

University of New Hampshire

University of Southern California

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Wesleyan University

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Beyond NuVu

College Matriculation

2015-2021

Odyssey STEM Academy

Lakewood, California

In the Interdisciplinary Studios Model, all teachers plan together an interdisciplinary project. This project forms a single, cohesive project pursuit for students to experience. The singular project is explored in multiple subject-area studios led by credentialed teachers. All of the unique artifacts of learning come together to form a project narrative presentation at the end of each studio.   

Bostonia Global High School

Cajon Valley, California

In the Design Labs Model, each credentialed teacher creates their own project-based studio experience using the Design Lab framework in guided PD sessions. A design lab is a topic-focused learning experience that engages students with the real world in a meaningful way. Students experience a variety of Design Labs across multiple years exposing them to a diversity of skills, knowledge, and competencies.