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HISTORY:
DIGIVATIONS™ XGENS was launched as the next generation of NASA award winning DIGIVATIONS STEM+ARTS+HUMANITIES+KINESTHETIC interdisciplinary educational programming. DIGIVATIONS concept was founded by Dr. Steven Lee Berman at UCLA in 1997 to integrate the digital media community across the disciplines of arts and architecture, business, classics, education, engineering, film, television and theater, medicine, and life and physical sciences for the purposes of catalyzing innovative academic programs and research.
This effort evolved into a University of California Systemwide (10 campus and 3 National Labs) Digital Media industry-university matching grants research and academic program in the late 1990's and early 2000's. This work yielded discoveries which established the foundations and industries from the early 21st Century and beyond in fields encompassing advanced & distributive computing, alternative energy, bioengineering, commercial space exploration, genetics, intelligent infrastructure and transportation, medicine, precision agriculture, sustainability, among others.
XGENS HOMESCHOOL:
DIGIVATIONS XGENS' Global College Preparatory Homeschool & Model UN Academies is a non-profit North American affiliate of NASA award winning DIGIVATIONS’ family of K-25 educational entities. These affiliates include DIGIVATIONS EDUCATION VENTURES' Homeschool and programs in BC, Canada, DEMIGOD™ INSTITUTE in the US and its NASA award winning educational non-profit affiliate, federal 501(c)(3), DIGIVATIONS™ CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE. They are dedicated to providing STEM + ARTS + HUMANITIES + KINESTHETIC day and overnight programs including Innovation & Literary Camp Demigod™and 360° solutions solving 21st century challenges facing local community, regional, national and international populations..
DIGIVATIONS XGENS offers homeschool courses for children and youth, ages 5-18, multidisciplinary career, professional development and leadership programs in fields encompassing STEM, the creative arts, cultural heritage, cognitive (emotional) and physical healthcare, diplomacy, history, technology policy and scientific exploration. Since 1998, DIGIVATIONS’ Founders have invested their decades of experience acquired in Academia (UCLA, USB, UBC, IOWA STATE, GNWC), Government (California, BC, Canada, New Jersey), Creative Arts, and Technology Industries, for the purposes of establishing and 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.
XGENS comprises High School and University Model United Nations Academies and Delegations which participate at MUN Conferences held at the UN, Palais des Nations, in Geneva and NY, as well as Harvard and Yale, among others. It also includes Institutes focused on the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and an Academy of Exponential Thinking which deploys design thinking to educate citizens about the UN's SDG'S. These Institutes implement the Goals at the local, regional, national and international level. XGENS also includes an Accelerator and Incubator, Collaboratorium Innovation Resources, (CIR), focusing on translating and applying scientific as well as artistic and humanistic research and discoveries systematically to support achievement of the targets underlying the UN's SDG's.
DIGIVATIONS FUTURES:
All of the referenced non-profits encapsulate their respective focuses into a shared common mission which we reference as DIGIVATIONS FUTURES: educating and training youth, adults and professionals with "Sustainable Skills to Build Sustainable Communities." All of these entities include and attract world class academics, professionals and industry stakeholders who support community outreach throughout the globe.
DIGIVATIONS™ XGENS was launched as the next generation of NASA award winning DIGIVATIONS STEM+ARTS+HUMANITIES+KINESTHETIC interdisciplinary educational programming. DIGIVATIONS concept was founded by Dr. Steven Lee Berman at UCLA in 1997 to integrate the digital media community across the disciplines of arts and architecture, business, classics, education, engineering, film, television and theater, medicine, and life and physical sciences for the purposes of catalyzing innovative academic programs and research.
This effort evolved into a University of California Systemwide (10 campus and 3 National Labs) Digital Media industry-university matching grants research and academic program in the late 1990's and early 2000's. This work yielded discoveries which established the foundations and industries from the early 21st Century and beyond in fields encompassing advanced & distributive computing, alternative energy, bioengineering, commercial space exploration, genetics, intelligent infrastructure and transportation, medicine, precision agriculture, sustainability, among others.
XGENS HOMESCHOOL:
DIGIVATIONS XGENS' Global College Preparatory Homeschool & Model UN Academies is a non-profit North American affiliate of NASA award winning DIGIVATIONS’ family of K-25 educational entities. These affiliates include DIGIVATIONS EDUCATION VENTURES' Homeschool and programs in BC, Canada, DEMIGOD™ INSTITUTE in the US and its NASA award winning educational non-profit affiliate, federal 501(c)(3), DIGIVATIONS™ CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE. They are dedicated to providing STEM + ARTS + HUMANITIES + KINESTHETIC day and overnight programs including Innovation & Literary Camp Demigod™and 360° solutions solving 21st century challenges facing local community, regional, national and international populations..
DIGIVATIONS XGENS offers homeschool courses for children and youth, ages 5-18, multidisciplinary career, professional development and leadership programs in fields encompassing STEM, the creative arts, cultural heritage, cognitive (emotional) and physical healthcare, diplomacy, history, technology policy and scientific exploration. Since 1998, DIGIVATIONS’ Founders have invested their decades of experience acquired in Academia (UCLA, USB, UBC, IOWA STATE, GNWC), Government (California, BC, Canada, New Jersey), Creative Arts, and Technology Industries, for the purposes of establishing and 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.
XGENS comprises High School and University Model United Nations Academies and Delegations which participate at MUN Conferences held at the UN, Palais des Nations, in Geneva and NY, as well as Harvard and Yale, among others. It also includes Institutes focused on the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and an Academy of Exponential Thinking which deploys design thinking to educate citizens about the UN's SDG'S. These Institutes implement the Goals at the local, regional, national and international level. XGENS also includes an Accelerator and Incubator, Collaboratorium Innovation Resources, (CIR), focusing on translating and applying scientific as well as artistic and humanistic research and discoveries systematically to support achievement of the targets underlying the UN's SDG's.
DIGIVATIONS FUTURES:
All of the referenced non-profits encapsulate their respective focuses into a shared common mission which we reference as DIGIVATIONS FUTURES: educating and training youth, adults and professionals with "Sustainable Skills to Build Sustainable Communities." All of these entities include and attract world class academics, professionals and industry stakeholders who support community outreach throughout the globe.
DIGIVATIONS XGENS PHILOSOPHY:
DIGIVATIONS XGENS is based on a philosophy of one its Founders, Dr. Steven Lee Berman, which proposes that, “New cognitive generations evolve every 3 to 5 years as a result of exponential technologies, corresponding processing of information and their direct impact on brain mediation, rewiring of the connectome. The core belief is that these new generations are also younger than 25.”
The ultimate impact of these new cognitive generations is an entirely different approach to learning, thinking and solving problems. It is the expectation that this immersively connected generation will establish global communities who will work together at accelerated and unprecedented rates to research, comprehend and equitably solve challenges. Harnessing these capabilities will lead to more positive outcomes underlying the issues relevant to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).
XGENS will focus on studying these outcomes which will lead to a better understanding of how we can all work together to solve societies’ greatest threats and challenges.
