FERPA-aware by design
Student names are never shown to public visitors. Even when the school has the “reveal names” toggle on, that only affects what signed-in admins and teachers see — anyone not logged in sees only the work itself.
Back to showcaseAbout Pompano Beach HighBeautiful student work
Beautiful student work
deserves to be seen.
This is a place where the digital art, designs, code, and builds students pour themselves into don't disappear the moment a grade gets entered.
The problem
A grade is the end. It shouldn't be.
Year after year, I watched students build things I genuinely couldn't believe a teenager made — 3D models, game prototypes, digital paintings, robotics builds, web apps, animations. They worked on them for weeks, refined them through critique, put real care into the details. And then the grade got entered into the gradebook, and the work vanished.
Maybe a screenshot got posted to a class slide deck nobody outside the room ever saw. Maybe the file got buried in a Google Drive folder and forgotten by June. Maybe the kid took a phone photo of the screen and never opened it again. That's a waste of art and talent — and the kids deserved better.
This site is the better. It exists so the work doesn't evaporate.
Beautiful digital work shouldn't live and die in a gradebook. This is the place students get to brag on what they made — and the place the community gets to see what gets built inside the school.
For students
A real place — not a folder, not a slide — to point at and say “I made that.” Something to show family. Something to put in a portfolio. Something that exists outside the gradebook and proves the work happened.
For the school
A live, public window into the work happening inside the building. Parents, neighbors, prospective families, local sponsors — anyone wondering what the classes here actually produce — can see, without making an appointment, without waiting for an open house.
Built with student privacy in mind
Three commitments. No exceptions.
This site was built by a classroom teacher, not a tech company. FERPA isn't a checkbox here — it's the design.
Image & video metadata stripped
Every photo and every video uploaded gets its EXIF metadata scrubbed before it's saved — GPS coordinates from a phone, camera serial numbers, original device names, edit timestamps. None of it survives the upload pipeline. What gets stored is the work, and only the work.
Work, not identities
No photos of students. No real names visible publicly. No personal information exposed in URLs, share links, or social media previews. The student is the author, but the showcase is about the thing they made — not about who they are.
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