inspiring the next generation of innovators,
leaders & future mentors
DIGIVATIONS @SIGMA PI, Cornell University & UCLA
We welcome you to our NASA Award Winning
Residential & Non-Residential Innovation & Literary Camps & Pre-Collegiate Academies
Intentional Programs Designed to Foster Healthy Mindsets: Empowerment, Confidence Building.
Deadline: Rolling Registrations
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Sigma Pi, Cornell University
MUN stands for Model United Nations and is an educational and academic simulation of diplomatic decision making. 5 Weekly Sessions in July!!Learn about the UN, MUN and the Vienna Formula. Immersion in critical and design thinking, arts & humanities, diplomacy, advocacy, research, writing, STEM & TECHNOLOGY policy lead to innovation & leadership enabling real world solutions to the SDG’s 169 targets & themes including: OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENTALISM, EQUITY, FOOD AND WATER SECURITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE, SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE, FUTURE OF WORK WITH PURPOSE & SOLUTIONS TO REDUCE POVERTY.
Successful Participation will lead to opportunities to Join our Model UN Delegation to travel to Yale MUN (LATAM), Sao Paulo, Brazil in August, 2024, Yale MUN LI at Yale and Harvard MUN in January, 2025 & MUNS at the UN in NY and Geneva, Switzerland in 2025! |
NEW TUITION SLIDING SCALE: For residential Academies: Parents save up to $850 per one week session when their income and assets are below $100,000 per year. Sliding scale discounts end May 10th. Families may pay $500 deposit toward their tuition per session until May 24 after which time, payment is due in full.
SPOTLIGHT:
Robotics, CS & Engineering: 
USC's Phoebe Turner, teaches CS languages, Engineering, Robotics
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Bring a Friend, Recommend a Student!
You Automatically Earn $100 and Your Friend or Student Also Received $100 Discount through our Referral Program!
Directors:
Co-Founders Anne Deane Berman, PhD and Dr. Steven Lee Berman on the Cornell University campus, Ezra Cornell Statue
"My son Colby adores DIGIVATIONS, and I do, too! Steve and Anne Berman are brilliant, heart led scholar/teacher/mentors who know how to engage and challenge children to grow and learn and take responsibility for creating a better, stronger, kinder world. It’s nothing short of life changing."
- Annie Arnoult, parent (2018-2024)
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"Just wanted to share our experience with DIGIVATIONS as our son was able to join for the January Yale Model UN session. Patrick did not have previous MUN experience but had always wanted to attend. Anne, Steve and Jacob were so supportive and able to prepare him in a short time. Their insights, deep experience, and valued connections created a great learning experience. Patrick learned valuable lessons on communication and teamwork. Additionally, he made connections and friends across the US and globe. We are very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with DIGIVATIONS and recommend for anyone who might be interested in expanding their extra curricular activities."
- Christyann Andrianopoulos, parent (2024)
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"Your programs are extraordinary, but your genuine concern for the success and well-being of every student in your Institute reflects the heart from which your programs are derived."
- Karen Best, parent (2020-2024)
- Annie Arnoult, parent (2018-2024)
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"Just wanted to share our experience with DIGIVATIONS as our son was able to join for the January Yale Model UN session. Patrick did not have previous MUN experience but had always wanted to attend. Anne, Steve and Jacob were so supportive and able to prepare him in a short time. Their insights, deep experience, and valued connections created a great learning experience. Patrick learned valuable lessons on communication and teamwork. Additionally, he made connections and friends across the US and globe. We are very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with DIGIVATIONS and recommend for anyone who might be interested in expanding their extra curricular activities."
- Christyann Andrianopoulos, parent (2024)
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"Your programs are extraordinary, but your genuine concern for the success and well-being of every student in your Institute reflects the heart from which your programs are derived."
- Karen Best, parent (2020-2024)
Unlock Your Epic Summer Adventure! DIGIVATIONS Opens a World of Magic, Science, Global Impact, and Year-Round Connection
Scholarships Available for Innovative Summer Programs on Legendary College Campuses Up to $1000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
[Ithaca, NY, Los Angeles, CA] – [4-2-2024] –Calling all heroes, wizards, future innovators, changemakers, and aspiring diplomats! DIGIVATIONS INSTITUTE, at Sigma Pi, Cornell and Sunset Village, UCLA, the NASA award-winning summer residential and day Camp Demigod, Pre-Collegiate Academy, and Model UN & 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals Institute experiences, is offering tuition reduction scholarships to make dreams come true for ages 9-17. For more information contact DIGIVATIONS Co-Founders Drs, Steve Berman and Anne Deane Berman, PhD 650-283-5440 [email protected] and [email protected]
Drs. Berman state, "We do not just teach science, we build thinkers and leaders. Students code, invent, and are exposed to myth, art, new music, and global connection. As Dr. Steve always says in his Innovation Class, WHY DO WE CARE? They see how it all fits together. Messy. Vital. Like the world our children will inherit."
Choose Your Path, Forge Your Destiny
DIGIVATIONS XGENS Model UN & 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals Institute at Sigma Pi, MU Chapter, Cornell University July 28-Aug 3 and at UCLA Aug 8-11 (Ages 14-17): Join the global movement to create a better world! Debate pressing issues, enhance research and writing talents, forge alliances, and master the art of diplomacy. Students gear up for major Model UN conferences with the XGENS delegation who travel together August 16-18, 2024 for an international Yale LATAM MUN Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil and to Yale and Harvard Universities in January 2025, among others.
Innovation & Literary Camp Demigod Institute at Sigma Pi, MU Chapter, Cornell University (Ages 9-17, June 30-July 27 week-long sessions): Immerse yourself in the thrilling worlds of Percy Jackson and Harry Potter! Explore the magic of technology, engineering, the arts and swordplay against the breathtaking backdrop of Cornell's waterfalls and legendary landmarks. Bring these beloved realms to life, with a twist of AI/machine learning and AR/VR followed by a legendary quest for some of Cornell's famous ice cream.
DIGIVATIONS Pre-Collegiate Academies at Sigma Pi, MU Chapter, Cornell University (Ages 14-17, June 30-July 27 week-long sessions): Dive into the future of science alongside world-class faculty including Nobel Laureates, industry experts and changemakers. Explore cutting-edge fields including AI, genetics, space exploration, quantum physics, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability in Cornell's renowned laboratories and research centers. Create original art, music, stories, inventions – the possibilities are endless!! Immerse in vital opportunities building your college/university and career CV through the following:
Join a year-round community with experts and peers through DIGIVATIONS COMMUNITIES which offers online events, mentorship, and opportunities to collaborate on projects that make a difference. Developing confidence, leadership, critical thinking, diplomacy skills, and a passion for making the world a better place – the core mission of DIGIVATIONS XGENS.
Scholarships Available for Innovative Summer Programs on Legendary College Campuses Up to $1000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
[Ithaca, NY, Los Angeles, CA] – [4-2-2024] –Calling all heroes, wizards, future innovators, changemakers, and aspiring diplomats! DIGIVATIONS INSTITUTE, at Sigma Pi, Cornell and Sunset Village, UCLA, the NASA award-winning summer residential and day Camp Demigod, Pre-Collegiate Academy, and Model UN & 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals Institute experiences, is offering tuition reduction scholarships to make dreams come true for ages 9-17. For more information contact DIGIVATIONS Co-Founders Drs, Steve Berman and Anne Deane Berman, PhD 650-283-5440 [email protected] and [email protected]
Drs. Berman state, "We do not just teach science, we build thinkers and leaders. Students code, invent, and are exposed to myth, art, new music, and global connection. As Dr. Steve always says in his Innovation Class, WHY DO WE CARE? They see how it all fits together. Messy. Vital. Like the world our children will inherit."
Choose Your Path, Forge Your Destiny
DIGIVATIONS XGENS Model UN & 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals Institute at Sigma Pi, MU Chapter, Cornell University July 28-Aug 3 and at UCLA Aug 8-11 (Ages 14-17): Join the global movement to create a better world! Debate pressing issues, enhance research and writing talents, forge alliances, and master the art of diplomacy. Students gear up for major Model UN conferences with the XGENS delegation who travel together August 16-18, 2024 for an international Yale LATAM MUN Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil and to Yale and Harvard Universities in January 2025, among others.
Innovation & Literary Camp Demigod Institute at Sigma Pi, MU Chapter, Cornell University (Ages 9-17, June 30-July 27 week-long sessions): Immerse yourself in the thrilling worlds of Percy Jackson and Harry Potter! Explore the magic of technology, engineering, the arts and swordplay against the breathtaking backdrop of Cornell's waterfalls and legendary landmarks. Bring these beloved realms to life, with a twist of AI/machine learning and AR/VR followed by a legendary quest for some of Cornell's famous ice cream.
DIGIVATIONS Pre-Collegiate Academies at Sigma Pi, MU Chapter, Cornell University (Ages 14-17, June 30-July 27 week-long sessions): Dive into the future of science alongside world-class faculty including Nobel Laureates, industry experts and changemakers. Explore cutting-edge fields including AI, genetics, space exploration, quantum physics, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability in Cornell's renowned laboratories and research centers. Create original art, music, stories, inventions – the possibilities are endless!! Immerse in vital opportunities building your college/university and career CV through the following:
- Get a taste of college life staying at the Mansion on the Slope
- Shadow brilliant researchers
- Gain vital community service credit
- Build a portfolio of purpose-driven projects integrating your passions to impress the world's leading universities and future employers
- Staff participate in internships.
- Think Critically using Design Thinking: Question, analyze, and strategize like a true leader.
- Collaborate Powerfully: Build meaningful bonds with a diverse community of like-minded individuals from around the world.
- See the Big Picture: Think globally, act locally to inspire positive change.
- Unleash Your Creativity: Express yourself through art, invention, and storytelling.
- Have Epic Fun: Live out your favorite stories through D&D, Quadball, capture the flag, and unforgettable quests.
- World-Class Mentors: Enjoy the journey with scientists, researchers, and visionary educators.
- STEM Meets Mythos: Explore the intersection of technology, imagination, and the timeless power of story.
- Global Connections: Forge lifelong friendships with a worldwide network of passionate peers.
Join a year-round community with experts and peers through DIGIVATIONS COMMUNITIES which offers online events, mentorship, and opportunities to collaborate on projects that make a difference. Developing confidence, leadership, critical thinking, diplomacy skills, and a passion for making the world a better place – the core mission of DIGIVATIONS XGENS.
WELCOME TO DIGIVATIONS!
NASA Award Winning DIGIVATIONS STEM + ARTS + HUMANITIES + KINESTHETIC INNOVATION & LITERARY CAMPS & PRE-COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES, Sigma Pi, MU Chapter, Cornell University, June 30-July 27, and UCLA, August 8-11, are camp and academy fusions where literary and media themes bring STEM, ARTS (visual to theatrical) & Humanities (Ancient Civilizations including Greece and Rome, Linguistics through classics) alive incorporating live action role-playing (larping), theatrical combat, world building (AI through metaverses), and bountiful engaging activities ranging from Capture the Flag, Quadball (Quidditch) and Wizards Chess to Board Games, as well as Dungeons and Dragons, and Magic. Design Thinking and hands-on composing, creating, making, writing (short stories, skits and plays) and prototyping (new product innovations including those inspired by biomimicry) through DIGIVATIONS’ Creative Learning Lab empowers campers/students to architect their dreams while also learning from peer youth scholars to graduate students, international renown faculty and Nobel Prize Laureates.
We empower the next generation of innovators. Our unique summer program at top universities offers: Global Model United Nations (MUN): Immerse yourself in diplomacy, research, and debate. Build your leadership skills representing countries at prestigious conferences like Harvard, Yale, and the UN. 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals Institute, July 28-Aug 3, 2024.
Our project-based approach fuels intellectual growth and collaboration.
WHY CHOOSE DIGIVATIONS? Develop Essential Skills: Elevate your research, writing, public speaking, and international diplomacy abilities. Boost Your Resume: Add Model UN experience and commitment to sustainability for standout college and career applications.
Make an Impact:
⚔️ Earn community service credit
⚔️ Gain internship opportunities
⚔️ Take action on causes you believe in.
⚔️ Find Your Tribe Forge lifelong friendships with a global community of like-minded peers.
DIGIVATIONS is an extremely personal and creative, engaging, immersive, hands-on, and rigorous innovation program that introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for successfully linking STEM+ARTS+HUMANITIES+KINESTHETIC multidisciplinary concepts in just two weeks with three and four week options available. 20-30 participants experience a cocoon of student centric innovation and creativity, often developing new works which highlight their vision for a more equitable, regenerative and sustainable future.
One & Two Week Programs at Sigma Pi, Cornell University (July) and UCLA (August)
The Berman Family Foundation is offering several financial aid and travel incentives. Check our Date & Rates & Details page for information. Please call us at 650-441-5100 or 650-283-5440 or Email: [email protected] or [email protected].
NASA Award Winning DIGIVATIONS STEM + ARTS + HUMANITIES + KINESTHETIC INNOVATION & LITERARY CAMPS & PRE-COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES, Sigma Pi, MU Chapter, Cornell University, June 30-July 27, and UCLA, August 8-11, are camp and academy fusions where literary and media themes bring STEM, ARTS (visual to theatrical) & Humanities (Ancient Civilizations including Greece and Rome, Linguistics through classics) alive incorporating live action role-playing (larping), theatrical combat, world building (AI through metaverses), and bountiful engaging activities ranging from Capture the Flag, Quadball (Quidditch) and Wizards Chess to Board Games, as well as Dungeons and Dragons, and Magic. Design Thinking and hands-on composing, creating, making, writing (short stories, skits and plays) and prototyping (new product innovations including those inspired by biomimicry) through DIGIVATIONS’ Creative Learning Lab empowers campers/students to architect their dreams while also learning from peer youth scholars to graduate students, international renown faculty and Nobel Prize Laureates.
We empower the next generation of innovators. Our unique summer program at top universities offers: Global Model United Nations (MUN): Immerse yourself in diplomacy, research, and debate. Build your leadership skills representing countries at prestigious conferences like Harvard, Yale, and the UN. 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals Institute, July 28-Aug 3, 2024.
Our project-based approach fuels intellectual growth and collaboration.
WHY CHOOSE DIGIVATIONS? Develop Essential Skills: Elevate your research, writing, public speaking, and international diplomacy abilities. Boost Your Resume: Add Model UN experience and commitment to sustainability for standout college and career applications.
Make an Impact:
⚔️ Earn community service credit
⚔️ Gain internship opportunities
⚔️ Take action on causes you believe in.
⚔️ Find Your Tribe Forge lifelong friendships with a global community of like-minded peers.
DIGIVATIONS is an extremely personal and creative, engaging, immersive, hands-on, and rigorous innovation program that introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for successfully linking STEM+ARTS+HUMANITIES+KINESTHETIC multidisciplinary concepts in just two weeks with three and four week options available. 20-30 participants experience a cocoon of student centric innovation and creativity, often developing new works which highlight their vision for a more equitable, regenerative and sustainable future.
One & Two Week Programs at Sigma Pi, Cornell University (July) and UCLA (August)
The Berman Family Foundation is offering several financial aid and travel incentives. Check our Date & Rates & Details page for information. Please call us at 650-441-5100 or 650-283-5440 or Email: [email protected] or [email protected].
Session III XGENS 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals Institute & Model UN Academy
(Overnight and Commuter ages 13-17, July 28-August 3)
Immersion in design thinking, arts & humanities, diplomacy, STEM & technology policy lead to innovation & leadership enabling real world solutions to the SDG’s 169 targets & themes: ECONOMIC, FOOD & WATER SECURITY; ENVIRONMENTALISM; SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE; FUTURE OF WORK IN AN AI WORLD; & SOCIAL JUSTICE.
(Overnight and Commuter ages 13-17, July 28-August 3)
Immersion in design thinking, arts & humanities, diplomacy, STEM & technology policy lead to innovation & leadership enabling real world solutions to the SDG’s 169 targets & themes: ECONOMIC, FOOD & WATER SECURITY; ENVIRONMENTALISM; SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE; FUTURE OF WORK IN AN AI WORLD; & SOCIAL JUSTICE.
Transportation by Charter Bus available from NYC.
Ways to Join our Community
In 2024, we invite you to join our Innovation & Creative Engagement classes from anywhere on-line and in-person through our overnight, commuter Academies and Institutes and Junior Day Camps
at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
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In 2024, we invite you to join our Innovation & Creative Engagement classes from anywhere on-line and in-person through our overnight, commuter Academies and Institutes and Junior Day Camps
at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Site Navigation:
Dates & Rates.
Advisors. Faculty/Staff. Activities.
Schedule. Community. Employment.
Home.
Curriculum
The Academies' are student centric featuring offerings where each youth will be able to pursue a wide range of interests as they learn and apply new knowledge as part of quests and adventures, and include, among other topics, the sciences, including advanced materials: material science engineering, semi-conductor engineering and manufacturing, bioengineering, commercial space, intelligent infrastructure, and quantum computing. Our goals this year include addressing Societal Needs by refining our curriculum enabling youth to continue to learn and acquire core skills enhancing their career opportunities and providing pathways for college credit to ease the burden of college costs. For the summer, we plan on focusing significantly on AI/Metaverse challenges, cellular biology processes, CRISPR advances in the context of genetic modification, comparative medicine, nanotechnology, neuroscience, plant science, and quantum physics, among others. The AI future depends on the speed with which chips can be developed, advanced and manufactured -- and students who already have this knowledge will have a huge leg up. The Cornell campus is perfectly suited to all our outdoor activities such as capture the flag, Wizards Chess; and sports such as Quadball (aka QUIDDITCH), Bowling at Helen Newman, Climbing at Lindseth Climbing Wall, Ice Cream Social featuring Cornell Dairy Ice Cream, Bus trips to local parks with box lunches, picnic dinners, and much more.
The Academies' are student centric featuring offerings where each youth will be able to pursue a wide range of interests as they learn and apply new knowledge as part of quests and adventures, and include, among other topics, the sciences, including advanced materials: material science engineering, semi-conductor engineering and manufacturing, bioengineering, commercial space, intelligent infrastructure, and quantum computing. Our goals this year include addressing Societal Needs by refining our curriculum enabling youth to continue to learn and acquire core skills enhancing their career opportunities and providing pathways for college credit to ease the burden of college costs. For the summer, we plan on focusing significantly on AI/Metaverse challenges, cellular biology processes, CRISPR advances in the context of genetic modification, comparative medicine, nanotechnology, neuroscience, plant science, and quantum physics, among others. The AI future depends on the speed with which chips can be developed, advanced and manufactured -- and students who already have this knowledge will have a huge leg up. The Cornell campus is perfectly suited to all our outdoor activities such as capture the flag, Wizards Chess; and sports such as Quadball (aka QUIDDITCH), Bowling at Helen Newman, Climbing at Lindseth Climbing Wall, Ice Cream Social featuring Cornell Dairy Ice Cream, Bus trips to local parks with box lunches, picnic dinners, and much more.
GRANDPARENT HIGHLIGHT:
This camp has meant so much to my grandson and all of us! Thank you so much for what you do. -Vicki W.
There is no other camp like Camp Demigod! My grandson has been attending the camp for 8 summers. His best friends in the world are his camp friends and he has found his passions from the multi-disciplinary NASA award winning curriculum. Bravo Dr. Anne and Dr. Steve and thank you for creating such an amazing, creative, unique and fun experience! - Elizabeth D.
PARENT HIGHLIGHTS:
Recently our 14 year old daughter participated as a delegate of the DIGIVATIONS XGENS Delegation at the Yale Model United Nations (YMUN). It was an exciting, educational, challenging, growth producing and fun experience. Dr. Steve Berman, Anne Deane Berman, PhD and their son Jacob Berman, guided our daughter through the YMUN process, and we are grateful she had this opportunity. It came about from being a camper!
Our daughter loves the Harry Potter and Percy Jackson books and this drew her to the DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE. This has proved to be an investment our family made that is paying off. She loves the camp and returned last year as an Assistant CIT.
Her social skills, self esteem and leadership abilities definitely grew from her time at DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE. She will be a CIT this summer and hopes to someday be a Counselor.
The Bermans' care about each child and provide a unique, safe, fun, camp that has enriching opprtunities for growth.
-The Canty Family, NYC
DIGIVATIONS XGENS is a non-profit North American affiliate of NASA award winning DIGIVATIONS’ family of educational entities. XGENS.org offers global, multidisciplinary career, professional development and leadership programs in fields encompassing the creative arts, cultural heritage, diplomacy, technology policy and scientific exploration. Centered on youth engagement and entrepreneurship, XGENERS are part of a global youth network under guidance of strategic experts in fields related to solving the SDG targets in application and practice.
Since 1998, DIGIVATIONS’ Founders have invested their decades of experience acquired in Academia (UCLA, UBC), Government, Creative Arts, and Technology Industries, in establishing and positively enabling an international community of thousands of youth, educators and professionals to exponentially advance the fabric of society paralleling the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. DIGIVATIONS XGENS programs prepare High School and College delegates to succeed at various conferences, including Yale and Harvard MUNs.
Since 1998, DIGIVATIONS’ Founders have invested their decades of experience acquired in Academia (UCLA, UBC), Government, Creative Arts, and Technology Industries, in establishing and positively enabling an international community of thousands of youth, educators and professionals to exponentially advance the fabric of society paralleling the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. DIGIVATIONS XGENS programs prepare High School and College delegates to succeed at various conferences, including Yale and Harvard MUNs.
Upstate New York, Cayuga Lake
With a backyard of incomparable rustic beauty, this very special campus environment is a playground sure to leave an indelible mark on your child.