Post by Carli Jaff After two weeks of hard work, perseverance, and an abundance of iterations, the students involved in the

Finally, we have our laser cutter. It is gigantic!!!! David had to de- and reassemble the whole machine just to get it into the main door. Well, it was stuck for a few days in the neighboring theater until the disassembly was complete.

Here is our first thing made by the laser cutter.

Today, NuVu students and coaches

Our last day of Genius Camp began with a quick introduction and talk by Dr. Ryan Wartena on the

We then began a quick tutorial on





Here David Wang puts the final touches on the self-built "Cupcake CNC," an open source 3D printer rapid prototyping machine made by



The Cupcake in action printing one of the student teams' components.

Students enjoy working together at NuVu and it shows!

This is a movie about the projects our students created in the Codes of the Brain Studio taught by Michael Sidorov, Sean Stevens, David Wang, and Dan Paluska.

The second day of NuVu's

Figuring out electronics and programing:

Putting stuff together:

Kids keep asking hard questions!

This week's BostInno article featured our NuVu Student Alumni (Crystal Carrillo, Javier Rodriguez, and Daniel Lasanta - all from our partner school Phoenix Charter Academy) and talks about how their fabulous creations made it to the runway at Boston Fashion week.

Read the article and more details about their inspiring stories here.

After testing their rigs at the harbor, students went back to the drawing board to design better ones. Nathan, from the

Jeff testing the plastic welder

Julian and Jeff discussing his newly designed kite/balloon

Mariah starting to work on her hot air balloon

And the most exciting moment of the day to see the huge balloon starting to rise

Danny decided to have the kids at the kindergarten test her kite.

Hayley starting to work on her RC plane

We had our biggest exhibit this past Saturday for the

A boy tests out the Personal Painter - a Kinect-based live digital painter

Kids playing with Catch Me-bot!

Father and son examining the robotic Wall Printer

A boy inspired by the shifting rays of colors drawn based on users' movements in the iMat game

A girl testing the Personal Painter

On display is the Plant-bot, a mobile light-following plant with a water trailer