Student Work

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 [...]

This term, Beaver has been piloting the NuVu program (pronounced “new view”), a one-term opportunity for upper school students to work on the MIT campus with MIT and Harvard PhD students who act as coaches in a design studio setting. “The program focuses on hands-on problem solving, encourages an inventive culture, promotes peer teaching and [...]

The students in Debi Ellman’s creative writing elective got some expert advice on screenwriting from Brad Falchuk ’89, an executive producer and co-creator of Glee, one of this year’s most successful new TV shows. To help them understand how a story makes the leap from the page to the screen, Brad sent the class the [...]

Seniors have spent a lot of time with teachers over their many years at Beaver. Perhaps they have thought at one time or another that they could do just as good a job of leading a class as their teachers. A few students in Alex Gould’s senior elective Modern Controversies got to see just how [...]

Seventh graders have begun working on the culminating project of their school year, the Cultural Heritage Project (CHP), and they are using a wiki to keep themselves organized. Students are asked to choose a country and a culture to explore then research the reasons that people from that culture came to America. Were the pushed [...]