Student Work

The spring NuVu program is in the home stretch and students are busy completing the “Filming the City” studio coached by award-winning filmmaker Alla Kovgan.
During the first days of the studio, students watched a few of Ms. Kovgan’s films and discussed the filmmaking process. The first week also featured a visit from Leonard Retel Helmrich [...]

The seventh grade concluded a six-week long project on immigration with the Cultural Heritage Project (CHP) Festival on May 19.  A capstone project in the grade’s U.S. history curriculum, the CHP challenges each student to research a country, focusing on why and how its people emigrated to the U.S.  (Many students choose countries of their family’s [...]

It all started with a student’s question in a 10th grade English class.
The class was reading Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, and Asa Welch ’12 asked teacher Robin Neal, “Aren’t we going to do something?”
A different teacher might have given a cursory answer about how slavery is an age-old [...]

Students in Lynn Bastoni’s seventh grade science class have put away the old pH testing strips that many of us are familiar with in favor of high-tech pH probes.
During their study of acidity and basicity, students filled a beaker with water and slowly added lemon juice. A probe connected to students’ computers was inserted into [...]

NuVu students presented their final projects for the Music and the City studio today before an audience of classmates, the NuVu coaches and guest experts from MIT.
Using software like Drawdio and Scratch, and combining electrical circuits, duct tape, copper strips, audio components, infared LEDs, and a Wii remote, they made a musical sounds with some [...]