YEARONE

(AY23-24)

- Studio program grew from one campus pilot to three campus implementation.

- East and West campuses began in classroom spaces with East transitioning to maker space mid-year.

- NuVuX studio teachers grew from three teachers to six teachers.

- NuVuX Expert co-teaching strategy of 3-6 session per week with studio teachers.

- Studio program to begin on all three campuses as a significant element of student schedules.

- All campuses will begin the year with a fully-built maker space equipped with new Apple computers and identical tools.

- Each campus will begin the year with two assigned NuVuX teachers.

- Year will begin with NuVu Expert co-teaching with the strategy of increasing teacher independence throughout the year. Ending the year with independently taught studios by NBHS teachers.

YEARTWO

(AY24-25)

YEARTHREE

(AY25-26)

؜- Increased importance places on reading, speaking, and productive socialization of students in the studio spaces through articles, discussions, and debates.

- Testing of a physical portfolio of artifacts (students journals) as a method of collection and assessing student work

- Introduction of "Experiences" as a supplementary format of curriculum. Experiences are stand-alone activities which teachers can facilitate without the need of the continuity of a multi-week studio

- Integration of aquaculture systems, robotics arms, VR headsets, 3D printers

Studio By The Numbers ( January 2025 - June 2025 )

In Six Months

Fort Meade 358 studio attendances (avg. 20 per week) 78 unique students

؜Lakeland 178 studio attendances (avg. 10 per week) 94 unique students

Winter Haven 297 studio attendances (avg. 17 per week) 162 unique students

؜Increase the quantity and quality of learning experiences in our studios

؜Goal

؜" EXPERIENCES "

EXPERIENCES

Drafting a Fidget Spinner Design

؜Programming a Robot Arm

Experiencing and Discussing VR

Future Authoring

Piloting a Drone

Debating Capitalism Versus Socialism

؜Tab Structure of Experiences

Why a shift to Experiences?

Reducing Abstraction

Multi-week topical studios rely on abstraction. Abstraction is not received well by NBHS students. NBHS students want opportunities to challenge themselves with concrete outcomes and direct relevancy.

؜

Accommodating New Attendees

Serving a student body whose attendance in less consistent and does not benefit from studio continuity.

Ease of Access

The multi-week topical studios have proven in past years to place knowledge ownership, and therefore facilitation responsibility, on the NuVuX Program Coordinator. Experiences should remove that gate-keeping nature of studios to allow for teachers to use the curriculum more easily. A "non-studio-teacher" should easily be able to facilitate an Experience.

STANDARDS

Current NBHS students are primarily taking the following 7 courses in Edgenuity. These documents outline the topics which align to the Florida learning standards.

Standards Alignment

ELA

MATH

SCIENCE

SOCIAL STUDIES

Foundations

Reading

Communication

Vocabulary

Algebra

Geometry

Statistics

Biology

Chemistry

Physics

Earth Science

Government

Economics

History

Standards Simplification

Standards Alignment

ELA

MATH

SCIENCE

SOCIAL STUDIES

Foundations

Reading

Communication

Vocabulary

Algebra

Geometry

Statistics

Biology

Chemistry

Physics

Earth Science

Government

Economics

History

Standards Alignment

ELA

MATH

SCIENCE

SOCIAL STUDIES

Foundations

Reading

Communication

Vocabulary

Algebra

Geometry

Statistics

Biology

Chemistry

Physics

Earth Science

Government

Economics

History

Standards Alignment

ELA

MATH

SCIENCE

SOCIAL STUDIES

Foundations

Reading

Communication

Vocabulary

Algebra

Geometry

Statistics

Biology

Chemistry

Physics

Earth Science

Government

Economics

History

By tracking which students have participated in which Experiences, we can construct a comprehensive educational journey.

If a NBHS student participated in one experience per week throughout the year, there would be forty opportunities for studio Experiences.

؜NBHS Student attendance doesn't lend itself well to the continuous studio model

؜Proposals

The ideal professional development scenario would be all studio teachers gathering together on one campus to participate in each Experience fully for one hour before facilitating it themselves.

* (next best would be all teachers participating virutally with pre-arranged materials)

I believe once Experience per week would serve our students and teachers better than multiple Experiences running each week.

The past two years has proven that multiple studios topics running at the same time has not increased quanitity of reach, but it has decreased quality of experiences by spreading us thinner

Planning for a learning experience with a

NEW STUDENTS &

RETURNING STUDENTS

LOW FLOOR -

HIGH CEILING -

new students that are entering the studio for the first time are able to engage with the activity, learn a useful skill, and leave excited to come back

returning students that have experience in the studio are also engaged with the new information and new tasks presented, can building upon their existing skills, and can reach to more advanced skill levels than inexperienced students

*these two things must happen simultaneously

Our Activity Create a Pencil Box

Levels of Experience

Assembling and gluing the puzzle of the notched box

Customizing the top cover with a unique image or pattern

skills: assembling & gluing

skills: image searching, Google Drive uploading, laser cutter operation

Build the box virtually in Rhino3D CAD software

skills: Rhino 3D navigation, Gumball rotate and move transformations

Disinterest (misbehavior) happens "below the floor" or "above the ceiling" of a classroom's activity.

LAST YEAR (AY23-24)

- Studio program grew from one campus pilot to three campus implementation.

- East and West campuses began in classroom spaces with East transitioning to maker space

mid-year.

- NuVuX studio teachers grew from three teachers to six teachers.

- NuVuX Expert co-teaching strategy of 3-6 session per week with studio teachers.

THIS YEAR (AY24-25)

- Studio program to begin on all three campuses as a significant element of student schedules.

- All campuses will begin the year with a fully-built maker space equipped with new Apple computers and identical tools.

- Each campus will begin the year with two assigned NuVuX teachers.

- Year will begin with NuVu Expert co-teaching with the strategy of increasing teacher independence throughout the year. Ending the year with independently taught studios by NBHS teachers.

STUDIO CURRICULUM PLAN

10/15 Holiday Parade Float

- how to work as a team

- design competition

- full size building

- Rhino3D & 3D printing

8/6 School Begins

- maker space tours

- culture building

- rules of the shop

- photography intro

STUDIO TIMELINE

8/12 WorldCraft

- how to work in studio

- cohort identified

- Rhino3D & laser cutting

presentations FTE weeks

9/30 - 10/11

12/2 Rocket Car Racers

- newtonian physics studio

- aerodynamics and design

- physics & wood working

presentations FTE weeks

1/27 - 2/7

12/2 Seed to Table

- health and biology studio

- hydro and aquaponics

- biology & chemistry

presentations FTE weeks

1/27 - 2/7

2/11 Future Furniture

- design and construction

- full scale fabrication trades

- photoshop & AI tools

presentations 4/14 - 4/16

2/11 Cyborg Enhancements

- computer science

- electronics hardware

- engineering & coding

presentations 4/14 - 4/16

4/21 Robotics

- automation software

- robotics hardware

- Engineering & Coding

presentations 5/27 - 5/30

4/21 Tiny House Architecture

- design and construction

- full scale fabrication trades

- VR Visualization & Rhino3D

presentations 5/27 - 5/30

STUDIO EXPERIENCE (Semester 1)

WorldCraft

Holiday Float

Rocket Car Racers

Seed to Table

STUDIO EXPERIENCE (Semester 2)

Tiny House Architecture

Robotics

Future Furniture

Cyborg Enhancements

INTEGRATION STRATEGY

STANDARDS

Current NBHS students are primarily taking the following 7 courses in Edgenuity. These documents outline the topics which align to the Florida learning standards.

ACTIVITY / STANDARDS ALIGNMENT

ACTIVITY / STANDARDS ALIGNMENT

To Be Developed

To Be Developed

To Be Developed

The Studios

Cyborg

Enhancements

Evolving human capabilities through creative uses of  cybernetic technology

Rocket Car

Racers

Engineering pinewood derby race cars with compressed gas CO2 rocket propulsion

Holiday

Float

Creating a unique holiday float for the three Polk County Christmas parades

Seed to

Table

Learning the growing process of plants to build sustainable systems to produce healthy natural meals

Cyborg Enhancements

In this studio, students will create beyond-human body extensions and enhancements that range from practical to provocative. Through brainstorming, rapid prototyping, ideation, and ongoing feedback, students will design, build, and activate these enhancements while uncovering what makes us human. 

Rocket Car Racers

In Rocket Car Racers, we will design and build competitive CO2 powered drag racers. We will study the physics that influence the speed of a car including aerodynamics, rolling resistance, and inertia. We will research inspiring car designs, sketch our profiles, carve our wooden bodies, and finish with sanding, paint, and decals. We will master the technique of creating free body diagrams to understand the forces acting on our vehicles. On the final day, we will race our design to determine the champion. 

Seed to Table

In Seed to Table, we will learn how to grow our own food by mastering the basics of seed germination, plant nutrients and growing conditions. We will discuss the many benefits of growing local fruits and vegetables that range from global environmental factors to personal health and wellbeing. The studio will technically outline a variety of growing techniques including the Kratky Method of hydroponics, the Nutrient Film Technique (NFT), as well as the traditional planting of raised garden beds. We will organized our planting strategy, monitor light and nutrients, harvest when ready, and prepare our studio-grown, all-natural meals. 

Student Voted Winner

The Polar Express

Holiday Float

Design / Build

The Skills

Hand Sketching

Sewing

Power Tools

Diagramming

Electric Circuits

Cardboard Prototyping

MAKERSPACE AGREEMENT

Learning and working in a maker space can be exciting and rewarding but it can also be difficult and dangerous. Because of this, we would like to come to an agreement on how and why we work in this maker space together. Today we want to come to an agreement that guides our time together in this space for the rest of the year.

TOPICS

PURPOSE

RESPECT

INTEGRITY

FOCUS

PURPOSE

Why are we as learners here in this makerspace?

PURPOSE

RESPECT

Is respect necessary in a school like this?

What does respect look like in behavior? What does it sound like?

What does a lack of respect look like?

RESPECT

INTEGRITY

Is integrity necessary in a school like this?

What does integrity look like in behavior? What does it sound like?

INTEGRITY

FOCUS

Is focus necessary in a school like this?

What does focus look like in behavior? What does it sound like?

What does a lack of focus look like in behavior? What does it sound like?

FOCUS

Additional behaviors that

you want to ask of us and/or of each other?

Never run or wrestle in the maker space.

Always leave the maker space cleaner than before. Never line up at the door when cleaning is needed.

Always sign the checkout sheet when using a cutting blade. Never let a blade leave the maker space.

Always use a green cutting mat underneath your material when cutting.

Never let your cell phone disrupt your opportunity to learn or your ability to be present.

Do not ruin or disrupt the learning opportunities of your fellow classmates with your behavior.

Never steal anything from the maker space.

If you ever have a question about anything, don't be afraid to ask. This is a place for learning.

Shemaiah Kendrick - Algebra

Before NuVuX Studio Assessment

After NuVuX Studio Assessment

Alberico Garcia - Algebra

Before NuVuX Studio Assessment

After NuVuX Studio Assessment

Abel Sanchez - Biology

Before NuVuX Studio Assessment

After NuVuX Studio Assessment