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Brightworks is a flurry of activity and we are thrilled to share peeks into the lives of the students, our school and the community.

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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
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
 
The Yellow Band explores mapping
Kimberly BesstMarch 4, 2018
Exploring Neighborhoods and Enjoying Some Food
brightworksMelissa NoceroMarch 4, 2018arc:Cities, cioppino, grade, mental mapping, neighborhoods, Question Formulation Technique, San Francisco, slope, sourdough
Power to the Orange Band!
brightworksLisaJanuary 29, 2018
Greenies calculate "The True Cost" of cheap labor in garment factories
brightworksRachel ForbesJanuary 29, 2018
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
A Round Up of Our Cloth Arc Exploration and a Preview into Expression Projects
Melissa NoceroJanuary 15, 2018
BWX Scratchers in Action
brightworksSam PhillipsJanuary 15, 2018after care, blue band, brightworks, coding, computational thinking, scratch
In the Cloth Percolators
LisaJanuary 7, 2018
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
Week of Sewing & Typing
Sierra ReadingNovember 12, 2017Cloth Arc, NaNoWriMo, Science with Ricky, Violet Band
Cloth + Stories
LisaNovember 12, 2017
From the History of Fashion to NaNoWriMo
brightworksMelissa NoceroNovember 11, 2017Arc: Cloth, clothing history, costume design, costumes, NaNoWriMo, pattern making, soap making, weaving
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