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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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Cloth Catch-up

brightworksNicole DominguezJanuary 28, 2018brightworksbeehive, sfbrightworks

brightworksSierra ReadingJanuary 25, 2018Expression, SF Brightworks, Violet Band

Cloth Update and Tool Training

brightworksKimberly BesstJanuary 19, 2018

First Iterations

brightworksMegan LepplaJanuary 16, 2018

BWX Scratchers in Action

brightworksSam PhillipsJanuary 15, 2018after care, blue band, brightworks, coding, computational thinking, scratch

Cloth & Religious Identity: The Greenies Study Islam

brightworksRachel ForbesDecember 20, 2017

Wearable Shelter

brightworksMegan LepplaDecember 9, 2017

Weave Been Busy!

brightworksRachel ForbesDecember 7, 2017

Getting to the Source of Cloth: A Day at Slide Ranch

brightworksLisaNovember 26, 2017

Story Plays and Cloth Beginnings

brightworksNicole DominguezNovember 26, 2017Arc: Cloth, brightworksbeehive, bwxred

Magenta Starts BWX's "Museum of Everyday," Inspired by Icelandic Museum

brightworksGuest UserNovember 16, 20171960 Bryant St-, Arc: Cloth, Audio and Radio, Exploration, High School, Multimedia

From the History of Fashion to NaNoWriMo

brightworksMelissa NoceroNovember 11, 2017Arc: Cloth, clothing history, costume design, costumes, NaNoWriMo, pattern making, soap making, weaving

Project Brightworks: Green Band

brightworksRachel ForbesNovember 7, 2017

Personal Logos

brightworksMegan LepplaNovember 4, 2017Arc: Cloth, art, design

The Coin Arc Was a Valuable Experience

brightworksMelissa NoceroOctober 31, 2017arc: Coin, currency, currency conversion, Financial District, Giants, MoMA, personal currency, Wells Fargo

90 Second Novel

brightworksMegan LepplaOctober 19, 2017

Foundry Day!

brightworksRachel ForbesOctober 13, 2017

Author's, Illustrators, and Coins, Oh My!

brightworksNicole DominguezOctober 9, 20171920 Bryant, arc: Coin, brightworksbeehive, bwxcoin, sfbrightworks

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

brightworksSierra ReadingOctober 6, 2017Amber Band, Coin Arc, SCRAP, Violet Band

Movies, and foundries and budgets—Oh my!

brightworksRachel ForbesOctober 5, 2017