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Vista Innovation and Design Academy
Vista Innovation and Design Academy, nominated by The Learning Accelerator, is a middle school in Vista, California.
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VIDA says "innovation is their tradition." The school is designed to "nourish the creative thinking skills of students and approach learning through the well renowned Design Thinking process that will empower students to take what they have learned and apply those skills to create non-traditional solutions to yesterday's, today's, and tomorrow's problems." The school has developed structures to foster creativity and help students develop skills in a personalized learning environment. The school has 27 design labs. Each student is enrolled in one and these labs foster student creativity, build student technical skill, and/or provide students innovative experiences. The school also offers 18 different electives. Students are encouraged to try out new ideas and even start new ideas which is fostered at an incubator.