MEETS HARRY POTTER AT DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD
JULY - AUGUST 2019
3 WEEK RESIDENCY PROGRAM : PLEASE CONTACT
DR. STEVEN BERMAN & ANNE DEANE BERMAN,Ph.D
steve@demigodinstitute.org and anne@digivations.com

MAIN COURSE

XGENS will explore through deep dives into World Building and Design Thinking  how different technologies (artistic, bio, digital, genetic) and related platforms (learning, social and governance, among others) can and are being used to improve academic, career and human performance. They will be considered in the context of three essential elements necessary to achieve exponential performance: critical thinking, empathy and problem solving.
Desired results of this three week excursion are creating new artistic and innovative works, new models for learning and academic success, roadmaps for understanding how to prepare for emerging and evolutionary career changes, and proposed redesign of economic, governance, legal and research models in the age of cyber citizenship and personal security encroachment. 
Ideal results will include development of new processes, platforms and products which recognize and integrate the Brave New World of Moderated Cognition Changes caused by the concept of exponential technology impact on brain (connectome)rewiring.

SPECIAL DESSERT: THROUGH SKYPE AND IN RESIDENCE-ARTISTS, ENTREPRENEURS, CYBER SECURITY EXPERTS, DIGITAL AND CRYPTO CURRENCY EXPERTS, GENETICISTS, NEURO SCIENTISTS, WELL KNOWN PYSICISTS AND MANY MORE

ABOUT XGENS 
DIGIVATIONS' XGENS™, "ACADEMY OF EXPONENTIAL THINKING," IS A NATURAL OUTGROWTH OF NASA AWARD WINNING DIGIVATIONS™, DIGIVATIONS.COM AND DIGIVATIONS™ CAMP DEMIGOD™ INSTITUTE, DEMIGODINSTITUTE.ORG, A FEDERAL 501(C)(3) EDUCATIONAL NON- PROFIT DEDICATED TO "INSPIRING THE NEXT GENENERATION OF INNOVATORS."

XGENS, XGENS.ORG, FEATURES YOUTH, PRE-COLLEGIATE, COLLEGIATE & PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS INCLUDING ACTION SUMMITS WHICH CATALYZE POSITIVE SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION. XGENS IS FOCUSED ON THE CONCEPT OF ORGANICALLY DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING EVOLUTIONARY FLEXIBLE SOLUTIONS WHICH REENGINEER OBSOLETE SOCIETAL STRUCTURES IN K-12 AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, FINANCE, GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY, POLICY AND RESEARCH.

DIGIVATIONS™ CAMP DEMIGOD™ INSTITUTE INSPIRES THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATORS THROUGH ITS NASA AWARD WINNING STEM+ARTS+MOVEMENT EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION & LITERARY OVERNIGHT CAMP DEMIGOD™, ENTREPRENEURIAL/INNOVATOR, SCIENTIFIC, ARTISTIC, LITERARY AND WRITER FORUMS AND RETREATS, AND COMMUNITY INNOVATION PROGRAMS.

DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD
DEMIGOD INSTITUTE'S NASA AWARD WINNING STEM+ARTS+MOVEMENT PROGRAMS ARE OFFERED THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND CALIFORNIA AND THEY CULMINATE EVERY SUMMER THROUGH OUR INNOVATION & LITERARY CAMP DEMIGOD, www.campdemigod.org.

CAMP DEMIGOD LODGE & LOCATION
CAMP DEMIGOD ​IS LOCATED IN LEAVENWORTH, WASHINGTON STATE WITH PROGRAMS HELD IN JULY AND AUGUST. THIS INTIMATE SETTING FEATURES A UNIQUELY DESIGNED HAND CRAFTED LOG LODGE, DEMIGOD LODGE.ORG, AND ITS 23 ACRE ESTATE BORDERING HUNDREDS OF US FOREST LANDS ACCESSED THROUGH ITS PRIVATE ROAD. CAMP DEMIGOD ATTRACTS LIKE MINDED STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO LEARN, CREATE, AND COLLABORATE WITH WORLD CLASS FACULTY FROM LEADING UNIVERSITIES AND INDUSTRY WITH EXPERTISE IN THE ARTS, DESIGN, ENGINEERING, HUMANITIES, MUSIC, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THEATER, FILM & TELEVISION.

​

XGENS' GROWTH MINDSET OPPORTUNITIES
XGENS PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH, PRE-COLLEGIATE & COLLEGIATE STUDENTS AND ESTABLISHED PROFESSIONALS TO THINK AND ACT EXPONENTIALLY.  

XGENS PROGRAMS SERVE AS BUILDING BLOCKS, (THINK LEGO 3D)  INCORPORATING THE SAME TENETS OF ENGAGEMENT AS ITS DIGIVATIONS PROGRAMS. THIS PROGRESSION LEADS TO  THINKING, DESIGNING, PROTOTYPING, IMPLEMENTING AND SCALING CREATIVE WORKS, INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS, PROCESSES,  METHODOLOGIES AND POWERFUL SOLUTIONS WHICH ARE  EXPONENTIALLY TRANSFORMATIVE.
​
OFFERINGS ARE FIRMLY ROOTED IN THE TENETS OF OUR NASA AWARD WINNING CURRICULUM TAUGHT IN DIGIVATIONS CANADIAN, US AND GLOBAL PROGRAMS,  INCLUDING ITS OVERNIGHT INNOVATION & LITERARY CAMP DEMIGOD, campdemigod.org.

​THESE TENETS INCLUDE INTEGRATING NARRATIVE AND OTHER LITERARY AND STORY METHODOLOGIES, MUSIC, TO DELIVER INVIGORATING KNOWLEDGE OF INNOVATION (STEM)+ ARTS+HUMANITIES+MOVEMENT (THEATRICAL COMBAT, MARTIAL ARTS AND QUIDDITCH) IN FUN AND EMPOWERING WAYS.  
HARRY POTTER AND ITS MUSIC WILL SERVE AS THE STORY THROUGH WHICH ALL OF THE REFERENCED ELEMENTS WILL BE EXPLORED.
​
LEADERSHIP & MENTORSHIP SKILLS TRAINING ARE ALSO FUNDAMENTAL TENETS WHICH ENSURE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING, EMPATHY AND PROBLEM SOLVING WHICH ARE THE KEYS TO SUCCESS IN COMPETING IN THIS WORLD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & SINGULARITY.

THROUGH THESE PROGRAMS, DR. STEVEN LEE BERMAN & ANNE DEANE BERMAN, Ph.D. HAVE TAUGHT OVER 5,000 STUDENTS AGES 5-105 AND MORE THAN 300 FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATORS. THEIR 15 YEAR OLD SON, JACOB BERMAN, HAS ALSO PARTICIPATED IN SIGNIFICANT WAYS INCLUDING INSPIRING THE WORLD'S FIRST OVERNIGHT CAMP HALF-BLOOD, AKA CAMP DEMIGOD. WHILE CAMP DEMIGOD IS INSPIRED BY THE WRITINGS OF RICK RIORDAN AND HIS BRILLIANCE IN PRESENTING GREEK MYTHOLOGY, THE CAMP IS FOCUSED ON THE ABOVE REFERENCED TENANTS AND EMPOWERING YOUTH, TEENS AND ADULTS TO PRESENT THEMSELVES AS RESPECTFUL LEADERS WTH CONFIDENCE AND EMPATHETIC INTELLECT.

XGENS PHILOSOPHY

XGENS SCHOLARS

XGENS YOUNG SCHOLARS CONTRIBUTE TO DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE AND ITS OVERNIGHT INNOVATION & LITERARY CAMP DEMIGOD. THE XGENS YOUNG SCHOLARS WILL BE IMMERSED IN CONTRIBUTING TO DESIGNING AND DELIVERING PROCESSES AND PROJECTS WHICH DIRECTLY CORRELATE TO POSITIVELY IMPACTING XGENS, DIGIVATIONS AND DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE'S MISSION OF INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATORS. THESE YOUNG SCHOLARS WILL PARTICIPATE IN RESHAPING THE ORGANIZATIONS' NASA AWARD WINNING CURRICULUM TO ENSURE ITS RELEVANCY AND FLUIDITY RESULTING IN EVER MORE INSPIRING STEM+ARTS+HUMANITIES+MOVEMENT CURRICULUM. THEY WILL ALSO UTILIZE THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA AND NETWORKING EXPERTISE TO EXPAND XGENS VISIBILITY ON A LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL BASIS BOTH FROM AN ACADEMIC AND MARKETING PERSPECTIVE. 

QUALITIES OF OUR XGENS' YOUNG SCHOLARS
THE XGENS YOUNG SCHOLAR WILL POSSESS OUTSTANDING CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING TALENTS, AND BE ENDOWED WITH EMPATHY. KEY INTERESTS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS INCLUDE ENGAGING WITH AND INSPIRING YOUTH AGES 8-18. A STRONG INTEREST IN AND FAMILIARITY WITH LITERATURE AND MEDIA ESPECIALLY IN THE DOMAINS OF NEW AND TRADITIONAL FANTASY/SCIENCE/SPECULATIVE FICTION (HARRY POTTER, LORD OF THE RINGS, H.G. WELLS, JULES VERNE, DR. WHO, THE AVENGERS) IS VITAL.

A CORE FOCUS WILL INCLUDE PARTICIPATING IN THE DESIGN AND HANDS-ON DELIVERY OF INNOVATIVE LESSONS WHICH INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION OF THINKING. A WILLINGNESS TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN CATALYZING AND MAKING EVOLUTIONARY PROJECT DESIGNS AND PROTOTYPES WHICH EMANATE FROM YOUTH'S CONNECTION WITH INNOVATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES, AS WELL AS KINESTHETIC/ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES IS CRUCIAL.

THE YOUNG SCHOLAR'S SUCCESS WILL BE MEASURED AGAINST CONTRIBUTIONS WHICH ADVANCE A YOUTH'S ABILITIES TO THINK AND PRESENT THEMSELVES IN DIFFERENT AND POSITIVE LIFE CHANGING WAYS IN SHORT PERIODS OF TIME. ARTIFACTS WHICH WILL MIRROR SUCCESS INCLUDE PRESENTATIONS, PERFORMANCES AND PROJECTS WHICH REFLECT PASSION AND ENTHUSIASM GROUNDED IN CONFIDENCE. A KEY OUTCOME WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH FOSTERING THE TALENTS OF YOUTH TO WRITE, DIRECT, PRODUCE AND MAKE PLAYS, SHORT STORIES AND INVENTIONS.

YOUNG SCHOLARS WILL ALSO UTILIZE THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA AND NETWORKING EXPERTISE TO EXPAND XGENS VISIBILITY ON A LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL BASIS BOTH FROM AN ACADEMIC AND MARKETING PERSPECTIVE.

​