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Well Lit Book Club

Well Lit Book Club

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Recognizing Indigenous Heritage Month

Recognizing Indigenous Heritage Month

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Building Our Future! Brightworks 2024 Annual Fund

Building Our Future! Brightworks 2024 Annual Fund

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Body Arc

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Boxbots at Brightworks - November Event

Boxbots at Brightworks - November Event

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Educating the Next Generation at the Intersection of AI and Technology – Virtual Event

Educating the Next Generation at the Intersection of AI and Technology – Virtual Event

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New Tuition Assistance Tool!

New Tuition Assistance Tool!

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Evening Salon with Gever - October

Evening Salon with Gever - October

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BI&PoC Fall Family Kickback

BI&PoC Fall Family Kickback

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Mexican Heritage Dance Party

Mexican Heritage Dance Party

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Exploring Brightworks, for prospective families

Exploring Brightworks, for prospective families

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Body Arc Begins!

Body Arc Begins!

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Aida Salazar Banned Book Chicana Author Visit’s Brightworks

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Upper School Studios

Upper School Studios

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Salon 01 - Five Dangerous Things Every School Should Measure

Salon 01 - Five Dangerous Things Every School Should Measure

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We are coming up on Gever's third Salon Talk this season! Come join us on Tuesday Nov 19, 7-8:30 pm, to learn more about his team's Boxbots!
Developed by students at BWX/Tinkering School, these bots aim to be accessible and affordable while providin

Body Arc Exploration phase!

We are very fortunate to always be able to draw on our parent group that immediately steps up and brings their expertise when called for!

This group of Middle School students got to witness a dissection of a cow's eye a

A quick reminder that our admissions season is in full swing! We have two open houses coming up this Saturday, Nov 16th, 10-12 & 1-3pm! We have a few open spots available. Please visit our website (link in bio) or follow the QR code for more info

Educating the Next Generation at the Intersection of AI & Technology!

Join us for this exciting virtual event with George Hofstetter, founder and CEO of GHTech and a current grad student @ Columbia University, as he explores the intersection of

Community Potluck & BWX 2024 Annual Fund!

A big thank you to everyone who came out yesterday for our fall community potluck! Having students, staff, families & friends gather around the sharing of some yummy foods, some interesting conversat

On this very specific day we choose to highlight & celebrate community!

Take a look at this extraordinary Body Arc exploration project in which our younger students went out into their community, reached out to strangers, photographed & int

Diwali @ BWX!

On the day after Halloween we got treated to this beautiful celebration by one of our own families!

Learning about and celebrating holidays & traditions that are meaningful to any of our students gives us an opportunity to build

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The Launch of By Land and NaNoWriMo

brightworksMelissa NoceroNovember 1, 2016Alex Nieto, arc: By Land, Clarion Alley, gentrification, Mission District, murals, NaNoWriMo, On the Way to School, San Francisco

Yellow Band: By Land, Week 1

brightworksPiper AlldredgeOctober 28, 20161920 Bryant St-, arc:by land, Brightworks Beehive, SF Brightworks, Yellow Band

NANOWRIMO

brightworksMackenzieOctober 27, 2016

Animals by-air

brightworksNicole DominguezOctober 26, 2016brightworksbeehive, by-air, red band, sfbrightworks

Ambigo's Mission to Mars

brightworksMegan LepplaOctober 24, 2016

Exploring Polygons

brightworksMackenzieOctober 14, 2016

Our Journey To Space

brightworksMackenzieOctober 14, 2016

Building, flying, graphing, constructing, eating

brightworksMelissa NoceroOctober 11, 2016arc: By Air, bridge, graphing, iteration, paper planes, Teal Band, tetrahedral kite, tetrahedrons

Yellow Band: by Air, Week 4 & 5

brightworksPiper AlldredgeOctober 7, 20161920 Bryant St-, 2016-2017, arc:by air, Brightworks Beehive, SF Brightworks, Yellow Band

Tom Sachs Exhibit

brightworksMegan LepplaOctober 6, 2016

Indigo Student Post: Kaia

brightworksPhillip FillastreOctober 6, 2016indigo

Learner Engagement, Intrinsic Motivation & the Brightworks Homework Policy

brightworksLizOctober 4, 2016

Magenta Visit to the Hiller Aviation Museum

brightworksJane ShamaevaOctober 4, 2016#magentaband

Magenta Visit to the NASA Ames Wind Tunnel

brightworksJane ShamaevaOctober 2, 2016#magentaband

A Digression Into Parachutes

brightworksMackenzieSeptember 30, 2016

A few of our favorite things

brightworksNicole DominguezSeptember 26, 2016brightworksbeehive, red band, sfbrightworks

Violet Band!

brightworksRich PerenyiSeptember 25, 2016

Making Kite Connections

brightworksMegan LepplaSeptember 25, 2016

The Balloon

brightworksMackenzieSeptember 23, 2016

Flight (and other stuff)

brightworksLisaSeptember 21, 2016