NuVu has been honored in the Core77 Design Awards 2017! The Design Education Initiative Jury chose our work out of hundreds of finalists for our "outstanding execution, insight, creativity, and intent."

Here are the official award details:

Core77 Design Awards 2017
Design Education Initiative
Notable
NuVu Studio

Read more at http://designawards.core77.com/Design-Education-Initiative/64179/NuVu-Studio

Our Summer Innovation Camp for Educators this year brings together over 80 educators from around the world to experience our studio model and process firsthand. This year, we have two tracks: "Studio" and "Big Picture." Each track focuses on different goals and objectives, but each experience allows educators to get a deeper understanding of our studio-model.

This is the 5th year of our Summer Program, and the biggest of them all! This past Monday, over 110 students descended onto our various NuVu locations in Cambridge and Scituate, MA. This Summer, we have programs set across three locations:  Human++ Program in NuVu in Cambridge, an advanced program at MIT, and a middle school program at Inly School! Students are already building their first prototypes in various studios, including Biofashion, Cyborg Athletes, Hacking Drones and Machine Art!

In addition, last Sunday our Summer Residential Program began with a splash. Outside of the Day Program, high school students will get a deep dive into Boston's rich cultural history as well as tour some of the leading startups around the city.

Today was the first day of our Summer Program at Kelvinside Academy, and it was a day packed with design and making! Our two studios, Biofashion and Swarm Robotics, kicked off to a great start. Our NuVu Coaches are working with a cohort of students from Kelvinside Academy for one full week, and students will be designing unique solutions to some grand challenges! Look for more updates on our twitter pagehttps://twitter.com/nuvustudio.

Check out the recent news pieces on NuVu in Scotland:

Herald Scotland: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15314882.Forget_exams__pupils_put_their_brains_to_work_by_building_a_robot/#
BQ Live:  http://www.bqlive.co.uk/scotland/2017/05/31/news/school-for-entrepreneurs-has-no-exams-classrooms-or-timetables-26035/
Glasgow Live: http://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-school-first-europe-take-13121986
Independent Education: http://ie-today.co.uk/Article/world-leading-innovation-school-comes-to-glasgow

This coming weekend (Friday-Saturday), wearable art designed by NuVu students will be featured as part of ON DISPLAY by Heidi Latsky Dance during two shows at the Whitney Museum of Art+High Line and Lincoln Center! All of the events are open to the public and we would love to see you there.

Schedule of events:

Friday, July 28 7:00pm-8:30pm Whitney Museum of Art and Highline

Saturday, July 29 6:00pm - ~7:00pm Lincoln Center

Dancers will be wearing:

Juxtapose 1:

Jerronimo (Jerron), Chestplate (Peter), Unravelling Tutu (Leslie)

Juxtapose 2: 

Armor (Heidi), Coral Community (Michelle), Shield (Krishna), Spatial Expander (Jerron), Sunrise (Tiffany)

Juxtapose 3:

Carmen the Dying Bird, Helping Meredith Fly, In Tune with Chris, Spine (Jerron)

NuVu featured in the Glasgow West End for our week-long program.

Read the piece here: http://glasgowwestend.today/2017/07/31/camps/

Check out our recent Summer program at partner school, Kelvinside Academy, in Glasgow, Scotland!
http://www.kelvinsideacademy.org.uk/News/ID/674/NuVu

We wrapped up our Summer 2017 Human++ Program with a big sha-bang! From July to August, we had over 210 students who participated in our 2-week long studios.  With topics including Biofashion, Soft Robotics, Aerial Filmmaking, Disaster Relief Robots, and Hacking Drones, students were immersed in the design process and focused their energies on solving large-scale challenges.  They designed, engineered, and built  innovative products that will one day revolutionize the world and their local communities. It was an incredible six weeks. Our team of coaches (designers, engineers, artists, filmmakers, game designers) helped guide the students through NuVu's creative process and brought a level of energy and enthusiasm that made the summer even more exciting.

NuVu received a notable mention in the Core77 Design Awards 2017 in the Design Education Initiative Award! Thank you to Core77 for acknowledging our team and students and for being honored with a great group of educational initiatives!

Here's more on the Design Education Initiative category in this year's awards:

"A business-education or nonprofit-education partnership initiative, or an initiative undertaken by an educational institution or institutions, which furthers the practice of design or promotes design education. Examples include, but are not limited to: workshops, class projects, institutional programs, print and/or digital campaigns, toolkits, strategy documents, etc. Please note that this is a Professional category only."

Read more at: http://designawards.core77.com/Design-Education-Initiative/64179/NuVu-Studio

This Fall, San Francisco-based developer DivcoWest collaborated with NuVu on the design of a groundbreaking machine for the groundbreaking ceremony on October 19, 2017 for their new project in the NorthPoint area in East Cambridge, MA called "Cambridge Crossing (CX). As part of the "Groundbreaking Robots" studio lead by NuVu Coaches this past June, fourteen NuVu students worked on a concept and design for a groundbreaking robot. At the end of the studio, representatives from DivcoWest selected one winning design to be built full-scale and demoed at the groundbreaking ceremony.  The winning project was the "Groundbreaking Steampunk Bike."

The  Groundbreaking Steampunk Bike team spent four weeks in September and October fabricating the bike. NuVu student Teresa Lourie, one of the creators of the Groundbreaking Steampunk Bike explains, "The Groundbreaking Steampunk Bike is a fully-mechanical, bike-powered steampunk digger, which is designed to be ridden at the groundbreaking ceremony in October 2017.  Cambridge and Somerville are known for their large population of avid bikers, as well as their emphasis on sustainability and environmental conservation. The bike was designed to represent those values, and show that the NorthPoint development would share those interests and mesh well with the other neighborhoods in those cities."

DivcoWest invited 300 people to share in the official launch of Cambridge Common at the October 19 groundbreaking ceremony. Attendees included Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons, Cambridge City Manager Lou DePasquale, and elected officials from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as DivcoWest's founder & CEO Stuart Shiff.