NAF Academy

What is NAF?

The NAF Academy at Burbank Unified School District is an academic and technologically-based program that encourages students to become courteous and productive members of a rapidly changing global society. Students will graduate with the necessary abilities and expertise to prevail in college, their career, and the world beyond thanks to elevated instruction, community outreach, assisting opportunities, and professional experience.

NAF MISSION STATEMENT

The BUSD NAF Academy will provide an academic and technology-based program that inspires students to become respectful and successful members of a continually evolving global community. Through high-quality instruction, community service, shadowing experiences, and work experience/internships, students will graduate with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, the workplace, and the world beyond.

ENGINEERING ACADEMY

Engineering 1

This STEM course serves as an introductory course for all engineering students. Students who complete this course will understand the concepts required to turn their ideas into solutions that will improve our lives.

Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles

The intention and purpose of the course are to educate students in a "mainline" manner by providing STEM education to all.

In a STEM experience, exciting hands-on learning activities such as data comparison of heart rates, rating consumer products, destructive testing, and building speakers, all apply math, science, history, and English content from other courses. Science and mathematics are made more engaging, interesting, concrete, and relevant in this course.

Have learned to navigate computer aided design (CAD) through the software AutoCad: made simulations, constructed/drew phone holders and cars, did group activities and presentations, for ex: manufactured motors with toothbrushes

Computer Programming

Intro to Computer Science is a year-long hands-on class that explores computer science concepts of computer terminology and architecture, software, the Internet and web design, and Java programming.

The major focus of the course involves an extensive academic study of computer science concepts using the Java programming language.

Topics included here are console input and output, programming calculations and operator precedence, predefined Java Math methods, control statements (if-else, for, while), and object-oriented programming. Students who successfully complete this class have been.

Took Computer Programming as a summer course over the designated google classroom in preparation for junior year. Took AP Computer Science A and learned to code Java on the software JGrasp and applying the logic to paper tests, like the formal exam.

Physics/ AP Physics

This physics course is a qualitative and quantitative study of the central concepts of physics, including mechanics, thermodynamics, waves, sound, light, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics.

Emphasis will be placed on mental imagery that relates to things and events that are familiar in the everyday environment.

Physics concepts will be studied with the use of demonstrations, laboratory investigations, multimedia presentations, and student projects. Laboratory work will include some computation.

SHM

Did numerous labs and activities throughout the units, such as making race cars out of straws and paper and letting fans push them, or reflecting light and seeing the output, and even holding a wheel after spinning on a platform and letting it steer your direction.

Engineering 2

This advanced engineering STEM course makes a contribution to the curriculum by providing opportunities for students and teachers to link content together and apply it to solve problems. More and more jobs demand advanced skills, requiring people to be able to learn, reason, think creatively, make decisions, and solve problems. An understanding of science, technology, engineering and math and their methods contributes in an essential way to these skills. Principles of Engineering is a team-based advanced course designed for most students. The Principles of Engineering courses' intention and purpose is to educate students in a “main line” method by providing STEM education for everyone. While providing a STEM-based education for all students, those interested in becoming practicing engineers clearly benefit from this course content.

Learned numerous types of simple machines: levers, pulleys, screws, wedges, wheel and axle, and inclined planes. Constructed boats in class through cardboard and tape to hold the mass of a launcher to then have a battle activity. Do multiple labs and terminology worksheets assessing the general knowledge of these machines.

NAF Track Certification

To be completed during senior year.

Learn more about NAF at their website: www.naf.org

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