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Written by Kim Saxe   

Student Initiated Projects

It’s a happening place to be on Mondays at lunch. Over 40 students forgo their beloved forts and other recess activities to come to the Innovation Lab and invent.

This fifth grader comes in each week to figure out this Japanese marble rollercoaster. The instructions are in Japanese, so he is using his own engineering skills to figure out how to make the marble do interesting things.

The student above is eager to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator and the LaserCAMM cutting machine.
 
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Nueva School is a nationally recognized independent school serving gifted students and emphasizing integrated studies, creative arts, and social-emotional learning. For more than 40 years, Nueva has remained committed to its original vision: to inspire a passion for lifelong learning, foster social and emotional acuity, and develop a child's imaginative mind. Nueva creates a dynamic educational model to enable gifted children to learn how to make choices that will benefit the world.