The BVR Accelerator is an immersive and interdisciplinary experience for Upper School students.

Dedicated to deeper learning opportunities, it puts trans-disciplinary learning in a real-world context front and center. During the Accelerator, students focus on ONE topic—leveraging time, partnerships, and faculty resources.

Started in 2023 as a three-day experience (BVRx3), the BVR Accelerator evolved to a full week in 2024; it will be two weeks in 2025 and (in certain cases) include local, national, or international travel components.

In 2024, there were 25 sessions on-and-off campus:

• Boston Told Through Food
• Building The Dam: School Leadership For A Stronger Community
• Communal Design through Skateboarding
• Craft and Community
• Developing Solutions in Music Therapy
• Digital Threads
• A Dog’s Purpose
• Embracing Dignity: Creating Community as a Form of Resistance
• Game Design
• Immersive Theatrical Design Incubator
• Jewish Folktales and Other Theatrical Storytelling
• Joymakers: Engineering Empathy in Action
• Pedal Pro: Unleashing the Cyclist in You
• Reading The Financial World
• So You Want to Make a Pirate Film
• Street Art • Streets to Stability: A Future Without Homelessness in Boston
• So You Want To Start A Food Business
• Sports Management and Business
• Taylor Swift: Owning Our Stories
• The Magic School Bus For Social Action
• The Science of Music
• The Science of Wellness
• Wilderness Explorers

Click here to read the recap of the 2024 experience.