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Overnight Camp Half-Blood at Cornell University


*The event has already taken place on this date: Sat, 07/15/2023
The World's First Overnight Camp Half-Blood (ages 12-17, July 2-15) QUESTS solve global challenges at Cornell University! Capture the Flag! 10th Season Celebration! The world’s first & only overnight Demigod training facility. Faculty contextualize current events in Ancient Cultures & Civilizations, Greek Mythology & Language, Anthropology with hands-on learning: STEM, Design Thinking, Art, Creative Writing, New Music, Theatrical Combat

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The World's First Overnight Camp Half-Blood

(ages 12-17, July 2-15)

We are looking forward to your child joining us commencing in July, 2023 on the spectacular campus of Cornell University in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York.  Your next step will be to register on our website (www.campdemigod.org) and pay the $195 application fee as part of your registration.  After a video call interview with the directors, you will be provided with a link to pay the remaining tuition (two weeks = starting at $3300 which can be paid over a 2 part payment plan).  Tuition covers all unlimited meals, housing, instruction, guest lectures, mentoring, supervision, transportation fees during camp, materials, and recreation fees. Does not include transportation to and from the camp.  Transportation by Charter Bus.

Tuition does not include semi-private instruction topics based on your child's interests: Advanced Technologies (Creative Tech), Music Composition, Martial Arts, Fine Art, Film Making, Creative Writing, Group Innovation Seminars and ESL. Parents may also purchase merchandise, such as, additional and delux sword & personalized costume materials, Camp Store Credit (to buy Drachmas: Greek Money), and more! $195 nonrefundable deposit, unless you require financial aid.

Please call Drs. Anne & Steve Berman for any questions at 650-283-5440.

 

Each summer, we create a community of like-minded campers and staff mostly from word of mouth.  Therefore, we invite you to share the poster above with your child's school and social media to receive $50 in camp store credit for every person who applies from your community.

Recognizing the emotional and physical impact that the pandemic has had on all of us, we all believe that socialization in a welcoming, creative, intellectually stimulating, and positive environment is invaluable. DIGIVATIONS’ focus this summer, consistent with the Creative Founder, Jacob Berman’s, vision in establishing a positive environment where every person feels like they are members of one large empathetic and kind family with the goals of creating a better world will continue to prevail especially since the Camp and XGENS UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals Institute are small, offering personalized instruction.  Please visit a sample institute weekly schedule.

We believe that this cohort will, as in the past nine seasons, establish new life long friendships, enjoy themselves applying new knowledge and talents creating impactful and novel art, music and other immersive STEM innovations, write short stories, plays and theatrical works, and role play as their favorite literary or media characters from the Percy Jackson Series, Fandom Realms, and/or representatives of different countries or those in the wizarding world of Harry Potter.

DIGIVATIONS’ hopes are that its Camps and Academy Programs will invigorate the campers and students enabling them to embrace the summer months with unfettered energy preparing them for a continued successful academic year in the Fall. DIGIVATIONS intends to accomplish its mission by “suspending disbelief” and empowering each camper and student to discover and unlock a new sense of awareness and self-confidence through the transformative strengths of its NASA award winning STEM+ARTS+HUMANITIES+KINESTHETIC curriculum. 

Our Cornell University facilities are top notch.  DIGIVATIONS INSTITUTE offers multiple theaters/stages, dance and yoga studios, LEGO/robotics space, media arts space, Innovation laboratory and Trading Room, fine art and music class rooms, art galleries, concert halls,  college and town libraries, Innovation Classes in the Great Hall inspired by Hogwarts Castle, tennis courts, baseball fields, soccer fields, basketball courts, volleyball courts, archery ranges,  and a stunning Lake just steps from the campus. We will be staying in brand new dormitories on a 200 year-old campus, students sleep in air-conditioned doubles and triples.  

For a moment, imagine that a quest occurs in the connectome, a parallel world where the fundamental laws of physics perhaps don’t always cooperate, traveling through an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, hoping in and out of multiverses where characters of different Fandoms share their knowledge and special gifts, and so much more. Consider that campers and students will learn Design Thinking to reimagine a more sustainable world, and apply concepts ranging from Artificial Intelligence and advanced computing, Bioengineering, Biomimicry, Genetics, Intelligent Infrastructure and Transportation, Quantum Physics, among many other fields, and generate artistic works including music, innovative prototypes, as well as diverse literary works and performances, which collectively architect blueprints, if not actual, solutions to societies’ grand challenges. Of course, the campers and students will enjoy basking and convening in the beauty of nature which surrounds each campus in the unparalleled Finger Lakes Region of New York State.

On a more serious note, returning to the practical and logistical world, the next step is for us to meet each other over video call.  This is a great time for your child to ask any questions and for us to understand what they hope to get out of the experience:   https://calendly.com/digivations/campdemigodinterview

When your student is accepted, you will be asked to fill out a questionnaire through our ACTIVE system, sign several forms Waiving and Releasing DIGIVATIONS’ Liability, as well as, among others, a Code of Conduct Form, digitally, including a medical form and waiver. In this regard, we will attach a vital medical form entitled “2023 DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE & DIGIVATIONS XGENS MEDICAL INFORMATION AND WAIVER AND RELEASE OF LIABILITY.” We will need you as the Parent/Guardian to sign the form and have your family doctor sign it as well. We require all the forms returned to us one week before the Camp and Academy commences, along with your child’s COVID-19 proof of completed vaccination card and negative Covid test. 

We also need your child/youth to bring all the original forms to Camp and provide them to Leadership.  Your child/youth will not be allowed into Camp without receiving the signed originals of all Forms.

Warmest Regards,

Dr. Steven and Anne Deane Berman, Ph.D., Founders

Jacob Berman (Cornell University 2025)

A Welcome Message from 9 year old Jacob (from 2013)

 

Facebook: DIGIVATIONS XGENS & DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE

Insta: cpdemigod

Phone: 360-543-5641 or 604-628-9825

Dr. Steve's Cell: 650-441-5100

Dr. Anne's Cell: 650-283-5440

www.campdemigod.org & www.xgens.org

 


*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.

Location:

757 Warren Road, Ste 4988 Summer: Upstate NY
Ithaca, NY, 14850
United States

Phone:

650-283-5440
Contact name: 
Anne Deane Berman, PhD
Email address: 
The event has already taken place on this date: 
07/15/2023
Time: 
9:00AM