• XGENS - UN SDG IMPACT
  • REGISTER DXCIMUN-YALE MUN-HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE
  • COLLEGE PREPARATORY & MODEL UN ACADEMIES
  • MODEL UN TRAINING ACADEMY APPROACH
  • HARRY POTTER OVERNIGHT-FINGER LAKES REGION, NY
  • DIGIVATIONS HISTORY
  • HOMESCHOOL & ACADEMY OF EXPONENTIAL THINKING
  • FOUNDERS-Dr. Steven Lee Berman & Anne Deane Berman, Ph.D.
  • XGENS PHILOSOPHY
  • XGENERS, ACADEMY OF EXPONENTIAL THINKING AND THE WORLD
  • Contact
  • DISCOVER
  • DIGIVATIONS XGENS @ CORNELL UNIVERSITY
DIGIVATIONS XGENS
  • XGENS - UN SDG IMPACT
  • REGISTER DXCIMUN-YALE MUN-HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE
  • COLLEGE PREPARATORY & MODEL UN ACADEMIES
  • MODEL UN TRAINING ACADEMY APPROACH
  • HARRY POTTER OVERNIGHT-FINGER LAKES REGION, NY
  • DIGIVATIONS HISTORY
  • HOMESCHOOL & ACADEMY OF EXPONENTIAL THINKING
  • FOUNDERS-Dr. Steven Lee Berman & Anne Deane Berman, Ph.D.
  • XGENS PHILOSOPHY
  • XGENERS, ACADEMY OF EXPONENTIAL THINKING AND THE WORLD
  • Contact
  • DISCOVER
  • DIGIVATIONS XGENS @ CORNELL UNIVERSITY

STUDENT ​BIOS

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Jacob Berman -Yale & Harvard High School MUNs and Harvard’s College National MUN (Leavenworth, WA, XGENS Head Delegate) attends DIGIVATIONS XGENS Homeschool and is a Running Start Student at Central Washington University’s William O. Douglas Honors College where he has earned 51 credits with a 4.64 Weighted GPA. In conjunction with the primary Faculty Advisor, Dr. Steve Berman, he directs delegations of students as the Head Delegate to North American and international Model United Nations programs in Geneva, New York, New Haven, San Jose, Leavenworth (WA) and other destinations. Jacob serves as a Co-Founder of the Innovation & Literary Camp Division of a family founded federal 501(c)(3) non-profit, NASA award-winning DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE. He influences and contributes to CAMP DEMIGOD’s curriculum design, staffing including personnel selection, teaching and programming encompassing academic (ancient cultures, design thinking, innovation in the STEM fields, world languages, linguistics, among others), artistic (music composition and performance, theatre arts, and visual arts) and physical movement (larping, martial arts, quidditch, rugby, theatrical combat), as well as providing counseling and direction to the camp staff and students ages 8 to 18. Serves as a Teaching Assistant for NASA award winning DIGIVATIONS Education Ventures’ STEM+ARTS+HUMANITIES+MOVEMENT educational entity providing programming to homeschool, special needs and gifted children and youth in Vancouver, BC Canada. Jacob serves as a volunteer and educator for the United States Department of Interior’s Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery including working with Indigenous and Latino children and youth. He co-founded Central Washington University’s Jewish Student Union and serves as a Board Member on United Synagogue Youth’s US/Canadian Northwest Regional and Chapter Boards. He enjoys reading, singing in choir, playing Minecraft & Dungeons and Dragons with his friends. As the co-founder of the DIGIVATIONS EDUCATION VENTURES, DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE, and DIGIVATIONS XGENS, he has been a member of the DIGIVATIONS community for more than 10 years in Point Roberts and Leavenworth, WA, as well as Vancouver, BC.
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Sophie Behm -Harvard MUN (Washington) is 14 years old.  She attends a wide variety of educational opportunities, including outdoor education with globally recognized Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, Washington. Sophie is deeply passionate about history, political activism, physics and art. Sophie has extensive training in a variety of art forms including sculpture, digital art, painting, watercolor and traditional art and more. Digipen Academy, Gage Art Institute and personal mentoring continue to expand her art skills. Sophie enjoys participating in community theater and taking improv and cinematography. She's excited to participate in the Model UN to learn more about how the UN works and how policies are made to improve the world.  She has been a member of the DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE community for four years both in Leavenworth, WA and on-line with their DnD Campaign.
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Evan Bondurant -Yale MUN (Beijing, China) is interested in Model UN, Environmental Activism, History, and politics. Evan has been attending Model UN conferences for three years. He has attended BEIMUN and DIMUN in Beijing, China. He is in 10th grade at Beijing City International School.  Evan is the student leader and founder of his school's media club, and his school's environmental activism group. He is also heavily involved in his school's Model UN club. He was personally given an award by Jane Goodall for his work in environmental activism, and was granted the opportunity to speak one on one with her. Recently he has gotten involved in his school's percussion band. He also founded and lead DIGIVATION’s Dungeons and Dragons program. Despite growing up in Saudi Arabia, he is very open-minded and forward thinking. He was the top student at the school he formerly attended and is on the honor roll at his current school. Evan has traveled extensively, having been to over 70 countries, which seeded his interest in Model UN. Evan enjoys reading, facing his fears, helping others, learning languages and writing fiction. He is very excited to participate in this prestigious Model UN.  He has been a member of the DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE community for three years both in Leavenworth, WA and on-line with his Camp Demigod DnD Campaign.


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Sierra Dages -Yale & Harvard MUN (New Jersey), is a Sophomore at West Milford High School in West Milford. She has an interest in music, math, politics, and science. She loves to read and has been playing the flute at her school for five years and recently started playing vibraphone as well. In elementary school she was involved in a program for gifted and talented students organized by my district where she had many opportunities to learn public speaking skills. In her freshman year, she started participating in Marching Band and recently ended her second season. She is also involved in Indoor Percussion in the winter and is auditioning for a few other ensembles. During Middle School, she was part of the Model UN team has an interest in international politics.  Generally, she receives high marks in school and has been participating in honors classes for most of her Middle School and High School career. She has volunteered as a tutor for a few students and she loves problem-solving and innovative thinking. ​
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Emily Grunert -Harvard MUN (Orville, WA) attends Oroville High School and is a Running Start Student at Central Washington University where she has earned 70 credits with a 4.0 unweighted GPA.  She competes at a national level with Future Business Leaders of America. She is a member of National Junior Honor Society, Girl Scouts, Upward Bound, and is a passionate clarinet player. She is always looking for new experiences and loves learning new things. She has been a member of the DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE community for eight years in both Point Roberts and Leavenworth, WA.
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Cassandra Osterholm-Yale MUN (Connecticut) is a freshman at Oxford High School. There, she is enrolled in all honors classes. She is also enrolled in Project Lead the Way, a four-year engineering course. Additionally, Cassandra is apart of student council and is currently the Treasurer for the Class of 2024 at her high school. Before entering high school, Cassandra was accepted into the Honor Society at her middle school. She was also awarded the Principle’s Award in Spanish. In her free time, Cassandra enjoys sketching, painting, and sewing. She normally can be found doing some sort of creative project. She also enjoys playing video games and Dungeons and Dragons with friends. Cassandra enjoys theatre and has been involved in her school’s theatre productions since fourth grade. In addition, for the past three years, Cassandra has been an acting coach, as well as a stagehand at her local elementary school in their theatre productions. She also enjoys hiking with friends and volunteers with her mom and sister at the Oxford Land Trust, where she is one of the stewards for a local piece of property.  She has been a member of the DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE community for two years both in Leavenworth, WA and on-line with their DnD Campaign.
Founders, Dr. Steven Lee Berman & Anne Deane Berman, PhD
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Since 1998, DIGIVATIONS INSTITUTE 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.
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The Founders of DIGIVATIONS Education Ventures (Canada) DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE (US Federal 501(C)3) and DIGIVATIONS XGENS (Model UN) are Anne Deane Berman, Ph.D. and Dr. Steven Lee Berman. Both were former professors at UCSB and UCLA, respectively. They represented the entire University of California establishing one of the most successful industry-university matching grants programs in digital technologies and content (Advanced Computing- SETI@home, AI, Precision Agriculture,Drug Discovery, Energy, Intelligent Infrastructure, Remote Medicine, 21st Century Entertainment, among others) generating over $300 million in revenue for the State of California from the late 90’s through the mid-2000’s. Dr. Anne Deane Berman​ is also an internationally performed composer and a former faculty member at UCSB, Iowa State University and University of British Columbia.

Heavily influenced by the United States and U.S.S.R. Space Race, Dr. Steven Lee Berman has served as a materials and computation engineer writing computer programs to analyze some of the first moon rock samples, and he also contributed to the research and design for some of the most advanced engineering and bioengineering applications including the Space Shuttle's heat shield. For the past 30 years, he has actively served as an Intellectual Property, Entertainment, Corporate and Non-Profit Attorney in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. He continues to be involved in numerous educational, technology and interactive media content start-ups and established the first formal enterprise to connect Silicon Valley technologists and creatives with the then more established entertainment corporate and talent communities in Hollywood (see Wired Magazine Article​). He also co-designed the curriculum for the first Digital Media Masters Degree program in Canada at the Great Northern Way Consortium Campus in British Columbia, Canada (ECU, UBC, BCIT and SFU).

Dr. Steve has also established economic partnerships and designed innovation pipeline programs for cities, governments, states, universities, and countries including founding the California-Canada Strategic Innovation Partnership which focused on Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Nanotechnology, as well as Advanced Transportation and Energy.

Both Drs. Steve and Anne Berman established a NASA award winning STEM+ARTS+MOVEMENT 501(c)(3) educational non-profit in the United States, DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE, and Innovation & Literary Camps featuring the world’s first and only overnight Camp Half-Blood (for which Jacob Berman was the creative force and a Founder); Harry Potter Campincluding Harry Potter Sustainable Universe focused on teaching students and adults about the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals and how to implement creative works and innovations supporting them, and Camp Fandom. To date, Drs. Berman through DIGIVATIONS have taught over 5,000 students, ages 5-25. DIGIVATIONS also established and operates its educational programs in BC, Canada through an entity known as DIGIVATIONS EDUCATION VENTURES​. The collective programs also focus on professional development having taught 2,000 educators and community innovation entities.
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Through our organizations, many high school and college students have received substantial benefits ranging from service credit hours and other awards, positions in our organizations and other professional enterprises, and university scholarships based on their work in our programs. Drs. Bermans’ current focus is on further developing its high school, Running Start, university and young professionals Model UN non-profit initiatives, DIGIVATIONS XGENS​, and its academic and industry programs focused on the application and implementation of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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  • XGENS - UN SDG IMPACT
  • REGISTER DXCIMUN-YALE MUN-HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE
  • COLLEGE PREPARATORY & MODEL UN ACADEMIES
  • MODEL UN TRAINING ACADEMY APPROACH
  • HARRY POTTER OVERNIGHT-FINGER LAKES REGION, NY
  • DIGIVATIONS HISTORY
  • HOMESCHOOL & ACADEMY OF EXPONENTIAL THINKING
  • FOUNDERS-Dr. Steven Lee Berman & Anne Deane Berman, Ph.D.
  • XGENS PHILOSOPHY
  • XGENERS, ACADEMY OF EXPONENTIAL THINKING AND THE WORLD
  • Contact
  • DISCOVER
  • DIGIVATIONS XGENS @ CORNELL UNIVERSITY