• 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


DXCIMUN

XGENS 
"INSPIRING & FOSTERING NEXT GENERATION INNOVATORS, MENTORS & LEADERS"


SUCCESS
CRITICAL THINKING
+
EMPATHY IN CONTEXT
+
PROBLEM SOLVING
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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.”

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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,

&

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 2024 -
August 2024.


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INCORPORATE HANDS-ON SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL, NATURE WALKS/HIKING-FACT FINDING MISSION and ART PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM WILL CULMINATE IN MOCK & ABBREVIATED DXCIMUN UTILIZING THE WFUNA WIMUN CONSENSUS APPROACH (VIENNA FORMULA) TO SOLVING LOCAL and MULTIPLE STATES’ WATER RIGHTS & OTHER CORE UN SDG ISSUES. THIS EFFORT WILL FOLLOW A UNIQUE SIMULATION FEATURING GUEST SPEAKERS FROM ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY TO DEVELOP SOLUTIONS TO THESE CHALLENGES TO BE HELD JULY -AUGUST.


Attend and enroll in DIGIVATIONS XGENS MODEL UN DELEGATION separately : PLEASE CONTACT
DR. STEVEN BERMAN & ANNE DEANE BERMAN,Ph.D

[email protected] & [email protected]


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XGENS’ MODEL UN TRAINING ACADEMY MAIN COURSE
UN’S 17 Sustainable
Development Goals

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​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.
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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 an abbreviated DXCIMUN to be held over a two day weekend at Sigma Pi Mu Chapter at Cornell University or a more condensed Institute at UCLA.


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 with DIGIVATIONS XGENS MODEL UN DELEGATION at formal Model UN’s.



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 AI and cyber citizenship and personal security encroachment which will address some key goals of the SDG’s.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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 2,000 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.


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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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Rigorous & Relevant UN Simulations
located
at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and UCLA in Los Angeles, CA

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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