Digivations @ Cornell University & UCLA

WELCOME TO DIGIVATIONS COMMUNITY! 

Offering Residential and Non-Residential Day Programs.

NASA Award Winning DIGIVATIONS STEM + ARTS + HUMANITIES + KINESTHETIC INNOVATION & LITERARY CAMPS (ages 11-13) & PRE-COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES (ages 13-17):

Cornell University, June 30-August 3 

 UCLA, August 8-11

In an effort to open up our summer programs more affordable for students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, we are announcing a significant sliding scale starting with those who earn under $180,000 per year.

The lowest income earners (under $100k) receive over $600 tuition deduction per week.

We are also enabling one week stays.

These camp and academy fusions where literary and media themes bring STEM, ARTS (visual to theatrical) & Humanities (Ancient Civilizations including Greece and Rome, Linguistics through classics) alive incorporating live action role-playing (larping), theatrical combat, world building (AI through metaverses), and bountiful engaging activities ranging from Capture the Flag, Quadball (Quidditch) and Wizards Chess to Board Games, as well as Dungeons and Dragons, and Magic. Design Thinking and hands-on composing, creating, making, writing (short stories, skits and plays) and prototyping (new product innovations including those inspired by biomimicry) through DIGIVATIONS’ Creative Learning Lab empowers campers/students to architect their dreams while also learning from peer youth scholars to graduate students, international renown faculty and Nobel Prize Laureates. 

Highlights include:

Independent and interactive seminars  (not for credit) taught by world class university faculty including Nobel Prize Laureates, graduate students, and world class industry professionals along with youth peer experts. Campers/Students actively engage with such faculty and industry experts through meaningful and robust question and answer sessions, Laboratory tours, and hands-on activities. 

• Innovation classes focus on the regenerative impact of emerging technologies, as well as the attributes of humanity which engage collaboration through creative, intellectual and sensory qualities to solve local and global challenges.


• Attendees explore a variety of literary and media themes including Percy Jackson, Harry Potter and Camp Fandom incorporating the infamous Hunger Games to the Marvel Universe and beyond, utilizing AI, fine art, music, science and engineering including computation/coding to robotics, composition, film, theater, improvisation, theatrical combat and sword play.


• Hands-on projects empower youth to solve quests, create future unicorn prototypes & art, write short stories, plays, musical & theatrical performances based around the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets.


• Project presentations and performances are evaluated by faculty, and receive feedback. 


• Attendees receive a DIGIVATIONS certificate for successful completion of program.

• Several Laboratory visits including the Wilder Brain Collection in the Department of Psychology, Kavli Institute at Cornell for NanoScale Facility, CHESS Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, ATLAS, Hebert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 

• Improve research, writing and oral advocacy skills, critical thinking and learn empathy and context connected to frameworks which include the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

• Community Service Credit

Innovation & STEM subjects encompassing Advanced Computing including AI/Metaverse world building, Aquaculture, Biomimicry and Regenerative Design and Implementation, Bioengineering and Biophysics “cell hacking” improving the human condition, CRISPR advances in the context of genetic modification, Comparative Medicine, Intelligent Infrastructure and Transportation, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Plant Science, Space Exploration including Commercial Space, Quantum Physics, Circular Economy and Design Thinking, Model UN advocacy, procedures, negotiation and writing impactful and inclusive resolutions, and & 17 UN Sustainable Development Goal accelerator and incubator concepts along with a plethora of additional topics and subjects. Guest faculty including graduate students from Cornell, University of California, Johns Hopkins, other leading universities, as well as industry leaders in STEM fields, Creative Writing, Film and Theatre including Theatrical Combat, among others. 

INNOVATION TOPICS LEAD TO CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT WHERE CAMPERS/STUDENTS CREATE NEW DESIGNS AND PROTOTYPES OF INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS AND WORKS IN THE ARTS, FILM, THEATER, MUSIC, AND THEMED ENTERTAINMENT INCLUDING QUESTS.

DIGIVATIONS is an extremely creative, engaging, immersive, hands-on, and rigorous innovation program that introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for successfully linking STEM+ARTS+HUMANITIES+KINESTHETIC multidisciplinary concepts in just two weeks with three and four week options available.  20-30 participants experience a cocoon of student centric innovation and creativity, often developing new works which highlight their vision for a more equitable, regenerative and sustainable future.

Camp Half-Blood Activities

Following the adrenaline rush from the day's quests and busy slate of innovation and discussions of Ancient Greek, Roman and other Civilizations history culture and mythology, both in English and Greek, followed by creative hands-on activities (art, music, drama, prototyping, writing), the nights will be spent keeping watch on the Camp/Academies, Demigod weapon making, combat training and deciphering clues for the next day. Capture the Flag and healthy desserts along with board games such as Magic, and Dungeons & Dragons are followed by Cabin time and reading before sleep. Another amazing part of the Camp/Academy after the claiming ceremony includes your demigod realizing their godly parent for the week where they discuss their quests, share common interests and create memories of a lifetime (laughter filled conversations under the stars and planets above is also part of the fun).

Harry Potter Sustainable Universe

QUIDDITCH (aka QuadBall), magic, spells, potions, dark arts, adventures through clues, theatrical combat. Campers learn the chemistry behind potions; the physics of quidditch including Newton’s 3 Laws and Einstein’s Theories which will help them prevail; deciphering techniques and learning different languages to read the clues; traveling through multiverses/alternative universes and space time (think “Dr. Who”); the quantum theories of superposition and quantum tunneling allowing them to traverse walls at PLATFORM 9 3/4; wand making; and the language behind spells, and so much more. Of course, Hogwarts does feature rather unique creatures whose DNA could use a little tweaking requiring a review of genetics and the magical tools of the CRISPR realm. Remember Wizards Chess will be lurking about. Who will be the winner?

Camp Fandom Activities

Fandomite's common interests are often fueled by stories embodied in literature such as Percy Jackson and the Olympian Series, the Hunger Games, the Leviathan or media including BBC television series' Dr. Who and Sherlock,and other series such as Avatar the Last Airbender, and The Legend of Korra. Movies including Avatar and Inception also ignite Campers interests. We have designed DIGIVATIONS INSTITUTE’s thematic academies and programs so that older children, ages 12-17, can enjoy multiple weeks experiencing collaborative opportunities with like-minded peers who create new works, explore, quest, imagine and design their own magical experiences “suspending disbelief, and while immersing in the common core of STEM+ARTS+HUMANITIES+KINESTHETIC which prepare them to catalyze their futures. 

Model UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals Institute

DIGIVATIONS XGENS, XGENS.org, July 28-August 3 delegation comprises delegates from throughout North America and the Globe. They are exceptionally motivated to learn about and contribute to their respective Committees with foundations deeply rooted in international affairs, European Leadership and governance, as well as respective policy strategies, and innovations. They are exceptionally capable students who will build upon their knowledge acquired through NASA award winning DIGIVATIONS, digivations.org, academies and programs which contextualize domestic and international affairs, government policies and political theory within a framework inculcating arts, sciences, and humanities informed by 17 the UN Sustainable Development Goals.  

This curriculum requires students/delegates to engage in research reflecting an understanding of primary, secondary and multi source research, creative and persuasive writing including drafting directives and resolutions, as well as issues specific position papers, preparing oral presentations, and developing and refining in accordance with Model UN, as well as Parliamentary procedures, negotiating skills development and oral advocacy talents. 

Our NASA award winning Academies, Camps & Institutes open up exciting windows of interdisciplinary knowledge and opportunity which naturally motivates a connection between each person's interests and the broader world. They develop personal perceptions of how and why their lives matter, and how they can make a positive difference in their own community and the world.