RELEVANT SDG NEWS: Tonight’s sky! Location? Where your youth along with our international faculty are excited about enjoying their immersive summer: NASA award winning DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE’s campdemigod.org and harrypottercamps.org and DIGIVATIONS XGENS.
Harry Potter Sustainable Universe (HPS) is intended for older students combining the World of Harry Potter with more engaging concepts and ideas. HPS is driven by World Building and introduces XGENS’ Academy interdisciplinary topics encompassing STEM, Advocacy, Creative and Persuasive Writing & Diplomacy. The ideas are taught, in part, through Model United Nations Fantasy Role Playing utilizing the world of Harry Potter as envisioned through collective thinking of faculty, staff and campers alike integrating immersive hands-on activities utilizing Design Thinking. HPS also explores the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals through sophisticated applications including Nanotechnology.
HPS is designed as a launch pad to enable very bright and capable students to participate in XGENS and its Model UN Academies & eventually as a delegate on XGENS’ International Model UN delegations.
Consistent with its mission to “Inspire the Next Generation of Innovators”, XGENS is announcing a new College Preparatory Sustainable Development Academy based on its NASA award winning STEM+ARTS+HUMANITIES+MOVEMENT curriculum. Consistent with new investments in intelligent infrastructure and transportation, smart cities and shelters, food security, advanced healthcare and biotechnologies, space exploration and commercial space, and meaningful careers in the world of AI, among other domains, DIGIVATIONS XGENS Academy will prepare students to acquire and apply foundational interdisciplinary knowledge solving SDG targets.
XGENS also announces a spotlight on UN Sustainable Development Goal 3, among other interrelated goals 1, 2, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16 and 17. XGENS will engage with a collaborative of international academic research centers including nanotechnology and other leading edge scientific and humanities communities which are focused on advancing healthcare technologies as well as societal innovations enabling sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the economic, social, and environment dimensions of sustainable development. Noted technologies, among others, encompass those supporting COVID-19 vaccines, biologic and genetic therapies, as well as AI applied to drug discovery and other innovative applied and translational scientific research designed to enhance good health and well being. These academic centers and societal innovation partners generate innovative solutions to the underlying SDG targets through interdisciplinary scientific research and applied science incorporating advanced education with a focus on next generation workforce skills, effective health and public policy and critical infrastructure investment including start-ups.
Consistent with its mission to “Inspire the Next Generation of Innovators”, XGENS is focused on engaging a community of middle school through high school students, Grades 8-11, in a SDG Innovation Social Venture Impact Competition, including XGENS-NANOENVISION, and XGENS YOUTH AMBASSADOR LEADERSHIP FORUMS where applied Science, Humanities & Literacy serve as the catalysts under the direction of DIGIVATIONS. The Social Venture Competition will integrate a global stakeholder community of educators (formal and informal), business and civic leaders, and UN sanctioned NGO’s working with underserved communities which will educate, guide and inspire the students.
The underlying goals will be to assemble interdisciplinary cohort teams who work together to develop cost effective innovations which will be deployed locally as well as globally as solutions to SDG 3 and other goals targets enabling healthier living and societies.
The competition will include three phases. One phase will include a design thinking and work plan stage leading to proposals which be evaluated, and the winners will receive opportunity awards that will be used to create both theoretical and functional prototypes. The prototypes will be judged based on prospective immediate and long term societal impact, innovation and relevance to achieving the targets of SDG3 and other goals with the selected winners receiving funding for the last phase. The third phase will yield tangible inventions that NGO’s can immediately implement positively impacting individuals and communities.
Humanities will serve a pivotal role in enabling scientific literacy and effective policy decisions for all individuals to ensure that disinformation is extinguished through personal empowerment and critical thinking skills development. Factually based information dissemination through XGENS-SDG community partnerships will prove valuable.
The following UN Video and SDG Partnership Guidebook serves as inspiration to engage participants to become active in positively transforming the world one valuable action after another. Every innovative moment in life matters, and you have the power to make a vital difference in others’ lives and society.
If you require additional inspiration about the WHY, please read a brief encapsulation about the 2030 Agenda for the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and UN Secretary-General’s, António Guterres’, United Nations pronouncement. Read The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020 published by the UN - HERE and attached below.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Please correspond with Dr. Steve Lee Berman at dr.steve@digivationsxgens.org.
XGENS also announces a spotlight on UN Sustainable Development Goal 3, among other interrelated goals 1, 2, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16 and 17. XGENS will engage with a collaborative of international academic research centers including nanotechnology and other leading edge scientific and humanities communities which are focused on advancing healthcare technologies as well as societal innovations enabling sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the economic, social, and environment dimensions of sustainable development. Noted technologies, among others, encompass those supporting COVID-19 vaccines, biologic and genetic therapies, as well as AI applied to drug discovery and other innovative applied and translational scientific research designed to enhance good health and well being. These academic centers and societal innovation partners generate innovative solutions to the underlying SDG targets through interdisciplinary scientific research and applied science incorporating advanced education with a focus on next generation workforce skills, effective health and public policy and critical infrastructure investment including start-ups.
Consistent with its mission to “Inspire the Next Generation of Innovators”, XGENS is focused on engaging a community of middle school through high school students, Grades 8-11, in a SDG Innovation Social Venture Impact Competition, including XGENS-NANOENVISION, and XGENS YOUTH AMBASSADOR LEADERSHIP FORUMS where applied Science, Humanities & Literacy serve as the catalysts under the direction of DIGIVATIONS. The Social Venture Competition will integrate a global stakeholder community of educators (formal and informal), business and civic leaders, and UN sanctioned NGO’s working with underserved communities which will educate, guide and inspire the students.
The underlying goals will be to assemble interdisciplinary cohort teams who work together to develop cost effective innovations which will be deployed locally as well as globally as solutions to SDG 3 and other goals targets enabling healthier living and societies.
The competition will include three phases. One phase will include a design thinking and work plan stage leading to proposals which be evaluated, and the winners will receive opportunity awards that will be used to create both theoretical and functional prototypes. The prototypes will be judged based on prospective immediate and long term societal impact, innovation and relevance to achieving the targets of SDG3 and other goals with the selected winners receiving funding for the last phase. The third phase will yield tangible inventions that NGO’s can immediately implement positively impacting individuals and communities.
Humanities will serve a pivotal role in enabling scientific literacy and effective policy decisions for all individuals to ensure that disinformation is extinguished through personal empowerment and critical thinking skills development. Factually based information dissemination through XGENS-SDG community partnerships will prove valuable.
The following UN Video and SDG Partnership Guidebook serves as inspiration to engage participants to become active in positively transforming the world one valuable action after another. Every innovative moment in life matters, and you have the power to make a vital difference in others’ lives and society.
If you require additional inspiration about the WHY, please read a brief encapsulation about the 2030 Agenda for the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and UN Secretary-General’s, António Guterres’, United Nations pronouncement. Read The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020 published by the UN - HERE and attached below.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Please correspond with Dr. Steve Lee Berman at dr.steve@digivationsxgens.org.
THE WHY: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was launched in 2015 to end poverty and set the world on a path of peace, prosperity and opportunity for all on a healthy planet. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demand nothing short of a transformation of the financial, economic and political systems that govern our societies today to guarantee the human rights of all.
“Everything we do during and after this crisis [COVID-19] must be with a strong focus on building more equal, inclusive and sustainable economies and societies that are more resilient in the face of pandemics, climate change, and the many other global challenges we face.
António Guterres Secretary-General, United Nations”
“Everything we do during and after this crisis [COVID-19] must be with a strong focus on building more equal, inclusive and sustainable economies and societies that are more resilient in the face of pandemics, climate change, and the many other global challenges we face.
António Guterres Secretary-General, United Nations”
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DIGIVATIONS XGENS ANNOUNCES ITS SDG MUN CONFERENCE SCHEDULED TO BE HELD AUGUST 2021.
Experienced & Talented Model UN College Students & Uniquely Gifted & Successful MUN Focused High School Students Should Apply for DXCIMUN Secretariat Positions Here
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DIGIVATIONS XGENS Delegation realized success at Yale, YMUN.org, and Harvard’s, harvardmun.org, Virtual High School Model UN’s. Also, XGEN’s Model UN Delegation also experienced a rewarding Harvard Virtual College MUN, HNMUN.org.
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