Our fancy new NuVu T-shirts have arrived! Designed by our in-house Art Director, Amro Arida, the T-shirts are made to wear for any occasion!

We have the following sizes available: XS, S, M, L, and XL. The T-shirts come in 2 colors (Pink & Grey).

If you'd like to order one, please email us at nuvu@nuvustudio.org with "T-Shirts" in the subject line and include quantity, sizes (XS, S, M, L, or XL) and color (pink or grey) in the message body. We'll follow up with more details.

T-shirts are $20, and a limited number are available, so get yours today!

This past Fall, we launched our partnership with Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) and had our first group of CRLS high school students who participated in our Fall 2014 Semester. This Spring 2014, we will be getting another group of CRLS students who will embark on NuVu's studio-based program, and are looking forward to completing a year of rich learning experiences.

The CRLS-NuVu partnership allows students currently enrolled at CRLS to register and enroll in NuVu for a full semester while getting full credit for their semester at NuVu. CRLS students can also take online classes through the Extension School to gain more credits and supplement their work after studio hours.

We are looking forward to expanding on these opportunities in the coming year, so continue to follow us for more news!

NuVu is an award-winning innovation school for young students (ages 11-18) based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. NuVu offers students the opportunity to work with experts across diverse disciplines (Technology, Design, Robotics, Programming, Art, Fashion and more) and explore the power of making. NuVu’s pedagogy is based on the architectural Studio model and geared around multi-disciplinary, collaborative projects. NuVu teaches students how to navigate the creative process: exploring, ideating, designing, prototyping and inventing.

For the Summer 2015 term, our theme will be Science Fiction! Students will dive into a multitude of topics surrounding that theme, stretching their imaginations and gaining valuable knowledge and skills along the way. With studio topics that include Sci-Fi Vehicles, Sci-Fi Toys, Futuristic Worlds, Sci-Fi Video Games, and Flying Objects, NuVu students will learn about Science, Engineering, Computer Programming, Robotics, Electronics, Product Design, Fashion Design, Music, Art, and Filmmaking, as well as inspire each student to develop social, problem solving, and technology skills.

In each studio, students will be pushed out of their comfort zone, and will stretch their creative limits to come up with something they have never done before. They will be designing gadgets, programming and building robots, creating digital art and animation, designing and fabricating interactive clothing garments, and inventing new toys. In every studio, in a period of two weeks, students will go through the process of learning, conceptualizing, designing, making and continuously remaking their products. They will work in collaborative teams under the guidance of our Coaches, who are professional experts and academics at MIT and Harvard. The studios are inspired by cutting-edge research and inventions from MIT as well as the vibrant technology and design industries.

Program Dates:

Session 1: July 6-17, 2015

Session 2: July 20-31, 2015

Session 3: August 3-14, 2015

For more information on the studios, please visit https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/terms/summer-2015

For more details, please contact summer2015@nuvustudio.org

NuVu Summer 2015 Day Program

Open to all students ages 11-17

https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/terms/summer-2015

NuVu Summer 2015 Residential Program

Open to out-of-state and overseas students, ages 14-18 or grades 9-12 in the 2015-2016 school year

https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/studios/summer-2015-residential-program-for-international-students#tab-overview

The Cambridge Fire Department Engine 2 visited NuVu today to discuss the tools, technology and wearables firemen use on the ground while fighting fires. The session was part of our "Brink: Wearables and Biometric Interface" studios taking place right now and helped give NuVu students more insight into the devices that are designed to interface with extreme environments.

Read more on this year's science fair here:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/18/googles-2015-science-fair-opens-for-submissions-today/

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2015/03/25/nuvu-sciencefair

We are holding an Open House at NuVu on Wednesday, May 27th from 7:30-8:30pm for prospective students and families who are interested in the NuVu program for the 2015-2016 school year. Learn more about how our program runs, our studio-based curriculum, our coaches - professionals from the industry - who lead the studios, and the diverse projects our students work on during the year. We have a number of partnerships with schools in the Boston/Cambridge area that enable middle and high school students to be a part of our program for a term, semester and year.

At the Open House, new student applications will be made available for students interested in applying to NuVu for next year. We will summarize the application process, criteria for application, and important deadlines for next year.

If you will be attending, kindly RSVP via Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nuvu-spring-open-house-tickets-17011058534.

NuVu Students who participated in the Easing Cerebral Palsy studio from last Winter's Health Term are in Monterrey, Mexico this week. In Easing Cerebral Palsy students designed products to ease the challenges faced by children, and the families of children, with Cerebral Palsy. Javier Leal, cofounder of Mas Libertad Menos Barreras, has facilitated an amazing experience for NuVu students: we are both field testing the products on location at Instituto Nuevo Amanecer, and reworking the projects at Monterrey Tec with the help of industrial design students. We have six terrific industrial design students volunteering with us this week, and access to their fully-outfitted shop. The first day in Monterrey was a day packed of activities and some fun time. The highlight of the day was at Instituto Nuevo Amanecer where one child tried out the Skills Vest (a skill vest designed to improve motor functions in kids with CP), and really loved it. The Wheelchair, Fashionable Lift Vest and Arte Para Todos were also very well received. After Nuevo Amanecer, students visited some mountains, brainstormed with the industrial design students, went to dinner at the planetarium and used Sam Bortman's selfie stick to capture a few group selfies.

NuVu students spent the morning with industrial design students from Monterrey Tec working through the changes the students are planning to make in response to the feedback from physical therapists and users at Instituto Nuevo Amanecer. The students worked hard together during the morning and into the early afternoon and then spent the late afternoon at MARCO, the contemporary art museum. We were delighted to find a very impressive exhibit of Stanley Kubrick’s work. As we were planning to leave the museum, Javier spotted Lance Wyman, most famous as the graphic designer for the 1968 Mexico Olympics. These Olympics were the inspiration behind the proposal NuVu students made in the Boston as an Olympic City studio in the Fall of 2014. We tried to convince him to come to Tec tomorrow, an unsuccessful venture unfortunately, but he suggested that we come to his lecture that evening. We went on a brief tour of Monterrey’s beautiful downtown and then returned to the museum to see Lance Wyman speak about his path into graphic design. To top it off we went to a Rey del Cabrito, a goat restaurant as famous for its kitsch as for its food.

Day 4 was an exciting and productive day devoted primarily to finishing the project modifications in the workshop. The wheelchair group divided up, with Stefano working on adding 3D printed corners to the 8020 to make the chair more child-friendly and Amit focusing on the seat. Stefano worked with Roberto, the shop monitor, on a full sized mill adding additional screw holes to the 8020 to make the connections sturdier. Amit worked with Grace, a Monterrey Tec graduate student, on forming a comfortable waterproof site and waterproof cushions. Grace and Amit created formwork for the vacuum-former using foam to create a plastic seat contoured for maximum comfort. The Arte Para Todas team focused on stabilizing the device and fabricating a more comfortable arm brace. Noah and Devin of the Skills Vest designed and fabricated 3 new toys, improving both the design and decreasing the size and weight. Sam worked with Tomás, a recently graduate of the Monterrey Tec industrial design school, to improve the usability of the Fashionable Lift Vest by utilizing strapping to color code which areas were meant to bear weight.  Sam also worked on a graphic for her vest inspired in part by the Lance Wyman lecture we went to earlier in the week.

We had many visitors, Rodolfo Barragán, the ‎Dean School of Architecture, Art & Design, Dr. Pedro Pacheco, a professor of architecture and Gerardo Muñiz, Director of the Industrial Design Department. Monterrey Tec’s newspaper also came by to interview the students about their projects and their experiences at Tec. By the end of the day each project had progressed dramatically, and we left the campus to eat at a Cuban restaurant for a late dinner.