ENJOY LEARNING ABOUT DIVERSE FIELDS ENCOMPASSING INNOVATION & STEM with a FOCUS ON CLIMATE ACTION/ADAPTATION and SUSTAINABILITY, the ARTS & HUMANITIES INCLUDING STATE, US & INTERNATIONAL LAW and RELATIONS. RESEARCH, WRITE ABOUT and PRESENT HOW THEY FORM THE FOUNDATION FOR and ENABLE REALIZATION of the UN’s 17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS FOR POSITIVELY ADVANCING SOCIETY.
ENGAGE IN EXPERIMENTIAL SIMULATIONS ABOUT LOCAL, NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL TOPICS INCLUDING ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE RESOURCES, “WATER.”
THIS RIGOROUS WORK WILL PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS:
CERTIFICATE OF ACADEMIC COMPLETION OF DIGIVATIONS ADVANCED NASA award winning XGENS COLLEGE AND MODEL UN ACADEMIC ACADEMIES,
COMMUNITY SERVICE CREDIT,
CATALYZES IMPROVED ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN HIGH SCHOOL -AND UNIVERSITY INCLUDING BY DIFFERENTIATING YOURSELF FROM OTHER CANDIDATES THROUGH ADVANCING YOUR RESEARCH, AND IMPROVING YOUR WRITING AND PRESENTATION SKILLS,
ENHANCES ACHIEVING MORE DESIRABLE COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL ADMISSIONS,
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SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES INTERNSHIP & CAREER OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDING WITH THE U.N.
DIGIVATIONS XGENS COLLEGE PREPARATORY MODEL UN TRAINING & HARRY POTTER SUSTAINABLE UNIVERSE ACADEMIES ARE PRESENTED
July 2021 -
August 2021.
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INCORPORATE HANDS-ON SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL, NATURE WALKS/HIKING-FACT FINDING MISSION and ART PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM WILL CULMINATE IN DXCIMUN UTILIZING THE WFUNA WIMUN CONSENSUS APPROACH TO SOLVING LOCAL and MULTIPLE STATES’ WATER RIGHTS. THIS EFFORT WILL FOLLOW A UNIQUE SIMULATION FEATURING GUEST SPEAKERS FROM ACADEMIA, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR’S LEAVENWORTH NATIONAL FISH HATCHERY, ELECTED STATE OFFICIALS, and INDUSTRY COLLABORATING TOGETHER TO DEVELOP SOLUTIONS TO THESE CHALLENGES TO BE HELD:
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DIGIVATIONS XGENS-CASCADIA INTERNATIONAL
Virtual MODEL UN two day conference ***
2022.
Attend and enroll in the DXCIMUN separately ONLY : PLEASE CONTACT
DR. STEVEN BERMAN & ANNE DEANE BERMAN,Ph.D
dr.steve@digivationsxgens.org & steve@demigodinstitute.org & anne@digivations.com
XGENS’ MODEL UN TRAINING ACADEMY MAIN COURSE
UN’S 17 Sustainable Development Goals
From the first day you arrive at the XGENS College Preparatory and Model UN Academy, the focus will be on establishing friendships of a lifetime and determining how to learn, think, write and interact together as Young Diplomats in Training to serve as Delegates and Judges, among other UN capacities.
A. Sudents in high school and college will explore the interrelationship of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) through deep dives using World Building and Design Thinking. Valuable references of the 17 SDG’s, include:
1.2030 AGENDA for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Students will explore and analyze the SDG’s by learning about different technologies (artistic, bio, communications, cyber, digital, energy, genetic, infrastructure, space exploration, and more) and related platforms (economic, governance, learning, and social, among others).
Students will also learn about the consensus approach and the process of how to apply it through the Vienna Forumula.
Other relevant topics will be taught along with key aspects of international law.
All of these concepts will be integrated through writing and oral presentations with the core goals of improving academic success, career potential and overall human performance.
B. Consistent with the XGENS Philosophy of Exponential Thinking, “we are creating new cognitive generations every 3 to 5 years,” students will consider their empowerment to change the world and achieve the underlying goals of the UN’s 17 SDG’s beginning today! This conceptual framework will be considered in the context of three essential elements necessary to achieve exponential performance and positive critical outcomes: critical thinking, empathy in context, and problem solving.
ACTIVITIES & OPPORTUNITIES
Specific activities and goals for the participating students are set forth below:
1. A significant focus will include meaningful, productive and fun exercises learning about and doing research regarding at least 1 specific topic of personal interest followed by 1 related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
2. The next step will be learning how to effectively present your research and how to advocate your findings.
3. A third step will involve determining how to build consensus regarding your research position.
4. A fourth focus will be learning about the UN General Assembly and its Committees, and different councils and other important entities.
5. A fifth focus will be learning about position papers and how to research and write them.
6. A sixth focus will be to provide a context and motivating environment empowering XGENS students to begin preparing for both a shortened DXCIMUN to be held over a two day weekend at the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery and DEMIGODLODGE where they will also have access to the Bavarian Town of Leavenworth, WA and other participants who were not part of the XGENS’ College Preparatory and Model UN Academy.
7. In anticipation of the aforementioned, students will be assigned countries, and either a general assembly committee or council for which they will prepare a position paper.
8. This training will prepare students to participate successfully as delegates in the one day DXCIMUN Model UN to be held at the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery and DEMIGODLODGE.
9. Those delegates who have thoroughly enjoyed their Model UN experiences, and have a desire to connect with international students from as many as 70 different countries and every continent, will be offered the opportunity to participate as members of the DIGIVATIONS XGENS International Delegation. They will have access to registration benefits.
10. Desired results of this two week excursion include students creating an action plan for themselves with fellow collaborators to determine local actions they can implement in their local communities that can be scaled regionally, nationally and internationally.
11. They will also begin work on creating new artistic and innovative works, processes and products, and new models for learning and multidisciplinary thinking which can serve as vehicles to attract awareness and support of the SDG’s.
12. Students will also collaborate on designing roadmaps which address 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 which will address some key goals of the SDG’s.
A. Sudents in high school and college will explore the interrelationship of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) through deep dives using World Building and Design Thinking. Valuable references of the 17 SDG’s, include:
1.2030 AGENDA for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Students will explore and analyze the SDG’s by learning about different technologies (artistic, bio, communications, cyber, digital, energy, genetic, infrastructure, space exploration, and more) and related platforms (economic, governance, learning, and social, among others).
Students will also learn about the consensus approach and the process of how to apply it through the Vienna Forumula.
Other relevant topics will be taught along with key aspects of international law.
All of these concepts will be integrated through writing and oral presentations with the core goals of improving academic success, career potential and overall human performance.
B. Consistent with the XGENS Philosophy of Exponential Thinking, “we are creating new cognitive generations every 3 to 5 years,” students will consider their empowerment to change the world and achieve the underlying goals of the UN’s 17 SDG’s beginning today! This conceptual framework will be considered in the context of three essential elements necessary to achieve exponential performance and positive critical outcomes: critical thinking, empathy in context, and problem solving.
ACTIVITIES & OPPORTUNITIES
Specific activities and goals for the participating students are set forth below:
1. A significant focus will include meaningful, productive and fun exercises learning about and doing research regarding at least 1 specific topic of personal interest followed by 1 related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
2. The next step will be learning how to effectively present your research and how to advocate your findings.
3. A third step will involve determining how to build consensus regarding your research position.
4. A fourth focus will be learning about the UN General Assembly and its Committees, and different councils and other important entities.
5. A fifth focus will be learning about position papers and how to research and write them.
6. A sixth focus will be to provide a context and motivating environment empowering XGENS students to begin preparing for both a shortened DXCIMUN to be held over a two day weekend at the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery and DEMIGODLODGE where they will also have access to the Bavarian Town of Leavenworth, WA and other participants who were not part of the XGENS’ College Preparatory and Model UN Academy.
7. In anticipation of the aforementioned, students will be assigned countries, and either a general assembly committee or council for which they will prepare a position paper.
8. This training will prepare students to participate successfully as delegates in the one day DXCIMUN Model UN to be held at the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery and DEMIGODLODGE.
9. Those delegates who have thoroughly enjoyed their Model UN experiences, and have a desire to connect with international students from as many as 70 different countries and every continent, will be offered the opportunity to participate as members of the DIGIVATIONS XGENS International Delegation. They will have access to registration benefits.
10. Desired results of this two week excursion include students creating an action plan for themselves with fellow collaborators to determine local actions they can implement in their local communities that can be scaled regionally, nationally and internationally.
11. They will also begin work on creating new artistic and innovative works, processes and products, and new models for learning and multidisciplinary thinking which can serve as vehicles to attract awareness and support of the SDG’s.
12. Students will also collaborate on designing roadmaps which address 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 which will address some key goals of the SDG’s.
SPECIAL DESSERT: THROUGH SKYPE AND IN RESIDENCE-ARTISTS, ENTREPRENEURS, CYBER SECURITY EXPERTS, DIGITAL AND CRYPTO CURRENCY EXPERTS, GENETICISTS, GOVERMENT OFFICIALS (Appointed Representatives, Elected Officials, Career Diplomats), 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. A VITAL ELEMENT OF XGENS WORK IS EXPLORING HOW THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF MODERATED COGNITION CAUSED BY THE IMPACT OF EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES ON THE REWIRING OF THE BRAIN (CONNECTOME) IS IMPACTING AN INDIVIDUALS’ PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY’s SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS TRANSFORMING LEARNING, ECONOMICS, AND INSTITUTIONS, AMONG OTHERS. 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’S, 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. LOCATION: DEMIGODLODGE.ORG CAMP DEMIGOD WAS LOCATED IN LEAVENWORTH, WASHINGTON STATE AND HAS NOW EXPANDED INTO UPSTATE NY 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
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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.
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.
