NuVu brings creative education to students around the world. Our mission is to empower the next generation of young designers, entrepreneurs, makers and inventors who will impact their communities and world through their work and ideas.

Our Core

Mission

We are more engaged when we are solving meaningful problems.

We should actively pursue new ideas and diverse perspectives.

Students thrive when they set their own personalized learning goals.

Collaboration is key to addressing complex challenges.

Our Core

Beliefs

؜A place co-created by our Students and Coaches and Team.

It’s their creativity, curiosity, and engagement that form the foundation of our hands-on culture. Each person contributes, and the result is a dynamic space where everyone plays a role in shaping the learning culture.

SABA GHOLE

NuVu Co-founder, Chief Creative Officer

MIT | SMarchS Cal Poly SLO | BArch

JOSELYN McDONALD

MADDIE JOHNSON- HARWITZ

NuVu Summer Assistant Director | NuVu Alum + Design Coach

MassArt Industrial Design

High School

Partner School Network

؜Design-based micro high school for 60 students/year in Cambridge, MA USA

؜Empowers K-12 schools around the world to deliver innovative learning experiences

Partner Network

2025 Participants

؜AGBU Toronto

AGBU Pasadena

Eliot Innovation School, Boston

Inly School, Scituate

Fessenden School, Newton

Kindle School, New Jersey

Needham High School

Woodstock MSHS, VT

Gimnasio Los Caobos, Colombia

AGBU

Toronto

AGBU

؜Pasadena

؜Eliot Innovation School

Boston, MA

Fessenden

Newton, MA

؜Inly School

؜Scituate, MA

Woodstock Union High School and Middle School

Woodstock, VT

Gimansio Los Caobos

Chia, Colombia

Needham High School

Needham, MA

Kindle Education Public Charter School

Jersey City, NJ

The Space

The Pedagogy

The Curriculum

What is "STUDIO"?

At the heart of NuVu’s curriculum are studios, a series of immersive, interdisciplinary, multi-week projects

Studios

Studios involve real-world topics, and focus on both conceptual and technical skill development

Saturday, April 11th

Sunday, April 12th

؜Intro- icebreaker

Skill Slam

Lunch

Design sprint challenge work

MIT Museum + Media Lab

Pick up from NuVu

Design Sprint Cont.

Project Feedback

Lunch & Learn

Final Showcase Prep

Final Showcase

Departure

09:30

10:00

12:00

01:00

03:00

04:45

09:30

11:00

12:00

01:00 02:00

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