Dr. Steven Lee Berman, Vancouver, BC and Point Roberts, WA, Co-Founder of NASA Award Winning DIGIVATIONS™ Education Ventures and President of its non-profit affiliate DIGIVATIONS™ INSTITUTE (see Advisory Board). Camp Demigod Co-Founder & Co-Producer. Dr. Berman holds
a BS, magna cum laude, in Materials Science/Ceramic Science Engineering
(with an emphasis in Computation) from Rutgers College of Engineering
and a Juris Doctorate degree from Yeshiva University's Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of Law (emphasis in intellectual property). Working together with his business partner and wife, Anne, he has created the DIGIVATIONS curriculum (STEM+ARTS+MOVEMENT™) and its publications (ImagineSTEM™ blog, Science of Movement and Rocketry Playbooks™), iDigivate™ Imagination Forums and electronic platforms (weDIGIVATE™). Steve focuses on transforming creative thinking and innovation in the areas of university and K-12 teaching, research, business, and government while "Inspiring the Next Generation of Innovators." In the DIGIVATIONS classroom, where he has taught over 2,000 students and more than 400 educators, Steve brings together many different subjects through current and historical events in a relevant, meaningful way to young people and educators. He uses dramatic roleplay and movement as a tool to enable students to creatively engage with the material. His efforts also focus on developing mentors who are effective contributors to academic, industrial and government institutions, see also http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenlberman. Read More...
|
Anne Deane Berman, PhD, Vancouver, BC and Point Roberts, WA, Co-Founder of NASA Award Winning DIGIVATIONS™ Education Ventures and Vice President of its non-profit affiliate DIGIVATIONS™ INSTITUTE (see Advisory Board). DIGIVATIONS Camp Demigod Co-Founder & Co-Producer, Faculty of Music. Dr. Berman holds a MA/PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a BM from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She works with her business partner and husband Steve to create the DIGIVATIONS curriculum, publications, events and electronic platforms and teaches our introductory through advanced classes in “Inspiring the Next Generation of Innovators.” She enjoys helping students to experience class content through designing narrative theatrical experiences. She is an internationally performed composer (Carnegie Hall) who teaches private composition lessons in the computer lab at Camp Demigod. Read more about Anne...
|
COLLABORATING SKYPE FACULTY/ADVISORS
|
Edward Buendia, Point Roberts, WA, DIGIVATIONS™ Camp Demigod Artist, Founder of Artistas Del Barrio, Eyes of the Innocent (a children’s art program) and Point Roberts Arts Foundation; Director of the Point Roberts Children's Arts Festival. He has created more than 60 images in collaboration with DIGIVATIONS founders, including for our Rocketry Playbook. He teaches drawing and painting.
|
David Boloker (via SKYPE from Boston, MA), CTO of IBM's Emerging Internet Technology Group and Distinguished Engineer. David will address Innovation, and specifically, Watson, the computer best known for winning at Jeopardy™ (also being applied to big data and medical advances). Read More...
|
Larry Tuch, Los Angeles, CA
is a writer and creative consultant working in the areas of
traditional, interactive and themed entertainment. He has written for
prime time network television series and worked as a freelance writer
and interactive designer for Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney
Imagineering. Interactive media and immersive environments:Larry’s
most cutting-edge work has been in the field of interactive media and
immersive environments. He was the Head Writer and co-designer for the
Paramount Television Group’s StoryDrive™ Engine Project which focused on
blending Hollywood-style story and character development with
interactive design. Read more...
|
Jo Adegbola (via SKYPE from Bellevue, WA) Former Director of Platform Services for PopCap Games, part of EA is a game industry veteran. Jo will advise on how to teach game development, building teams and inspiring passion and fun. Read More..
|
Chuck
Dages, Advisor and former EVP of Warner Bros. is both a DIGIVATIONS INSTITUTE Board Member, and participates as part of Camp Demigod's faculty. Chuck has been instrumental in redefining traditional entertainment industries in film, television and games, and creating new businesses in digital technologies while working with the talent which has driven epic movies such as Harry Potter, The Hobbit, Inception, Matrix, and many others. Read more...
|
Topher Bradfield, DIGIVATIONS Camp Demigod Story Advisor, created BookPeople's first Literary Camp, Camp Half-Blood: Austin Branch, in 2006. He has been entertaining and training demigods every summer since then. He has been consulting with Steve and Anne Berman of DIGIVATIONS and believes this amazing couple has planned a spectacular camp for this summer. Camp Half-Blood: Austin Branch feels that there should be more opportunities in the world for demigods out there to find a home to train as a hero, broaden their understanding of the world and become a part of a story that is uniquely their own. "Steve and Anne Berman understand our culture of Literacy, creative problem-solving, and inclusion."
|
Mark Friesen, Vancouver, BC, Movement Advisor and Level 3 Nationally Certified Gymnastics coach. DIGIVATIONS has been working with Mark since February 2012 to develop an integrated dynamic Science of Movement Program. He has coached gymnastics for over 15 years. He has coached both men’s and women’s competitive athletes and was a regional coach for Pacific Sport in Northern BC. He eventually shifted focus to recreational and community gymnastics through outreach programs to schools and programs for sport and community groups. Read more...
|
Virginia Lester, RN, MSN, ARNP, DIGIVATIONS Camp Demigod Nurse Practitioner Point Roberts, WA has more than 35 years experience as a Nurse Practitioner and director of clinics in both California and most recently developed and managed the Point Roberts Clinic. She developed and managed the Nurse Practitioner program at California State University Fresno. She was on several different national committees helping to develop the health care plan under the Clinton Administration, the precursor to Obama Care.
|
THEATRICAL COMBAT FACULTY
|
Robert Macdougall, DIGIVATIONS Camp Demigod Martial Arts and
Theatrical Combat faculty member. From Seattle, WA, Robert is an award
winning Fight Director, Stunt Coordinator, Movement Teacher and Martial
Arts Instructor. His fight direction has been seen in theaters, and
live stunt shows, on five continents. He was worked as an
actor, mime and clown, and toured nationally for several years, and has
taught at movement and stage combat in professional theaters,
colleges, universities, artist in schools programs, and professional
actor training programs, in the United States, Europe, and Australia.
He has choreographed action, from large battles, to individual duels,
on stage and screen, with Rapiers and Daggers, Bullwhips and Bowie
Knifes, Broadswords and Battle Axes, and diverse other Western weapons,
as well as various weapons from the Asian cultures of India, Thailand,
Indonesia, China and Japan; and choreographed and directed action with
firearms from modern automatic weapons to blackpowder. He has worked
as a stuntman, and/or stunt coordinator on several feature films, TV
programs, and commercials in both the US and Asia. He co-founded
Proteus Theater Company, and Shakespeare Plus Companies, and founded
"Sword and the Play" stage combat workshops, both in the US, and
Europe. Read more...
|
Kim Turney, DIGIVATIONS Camp Demigod Theatrical Combat Faculty Los Angeles, CA, Co-Founder of the Academy of Theatrical Combat offers year round stage combat training. Ms. Turney holds an BFA in Theatre from The Ohio State University and an MFA in Acting from The Ohio State University. The Academy of Theatrical Combat is a laboratory style program that focuses on training the actor’s body to move with the weapons starting from very basic movements with the cutlass and broadsword to the intricate and complex blade work of the French small sword. The movement techniques become second nature so the performer can focus on telling their character's story. She has been an instructor at with Academy in European historical weaponry (quarterstaff, broadsword, rapier & dagger, small sword, etc.) since 1996. In 2005, she received the title of Sword Master for 9 years of continuous teaching and creating and notating all the fight choreography for the short film, Intervention. She has also taught extensively at Archer School for Girls, Ohio State University, California Institute of the Arts, and Freshi Films. Film credits include: Dracula's Guest (MRG Entertainment), Grim Reaper (MRG Entertainment), Manje' (LP3 Pictures), A Dead Calling (Feifer Worldwide Productions). Theatre credits include: Chronicles of Narnia (California Theatre of the Arts), Gladiator, the Musical (Carnival Productions), Henry IV X 4 (The Classical Theatre Lab). TV credits: Freshi Films: How to Make Movies, America's Next Producer (TV Guide, Magical Elves Productions), The Lady Musketeer (Hallmark Productions), The New Adventure of Robin Hood (Baltic Ventures International). Read more...
|
Carrie Thiel, Bowen Island, BC, Actor/Stunt Performer, Fight Choreographer, and 'Performance Capture' Designer and Director teaches the art of safe sword fighting and theatrical combat. Her film credits include: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Alexander and Kingdom of Heaven, read more...
|
Guest Artists & Former Faculty
|
Christina Norberg, Vancouver, BC recently completed a
DIGIVATIONS commission to create an upcycled plush toy art piece
that represents DIGIVATIONS Tardigrade and one of its mastcots.
This adorable character also makes its appearance in DIGIVATIONS
ImagineSTEM blog and future ePlaybook series projects. Norberg’s art has can be found in both private and public collections across North America, and overseas. In 2012, she was awarded an art commission by Vancity, Canada's largest credit union. She had a solo show at the Britannia Art Gallery in Vancouver, December 2013. Read More...
|
Bethany Roy, Los Angeles, CA, History, Mythology, Creative Writing & ESL has spent three summers working at overnight summer camps in California, as well as creating and teaching VBS curriculum. Having thrived at Lions Club speech contests and Academic Decathlon competitions throughout high school, Bethany is now using this writing experience to develop that skill in children. She has privately tutored English as Second Language (ESL) students, as well as coached her former Academic Decathlon team in Fowler, CA. Bethany recently completed her Bachelor of Arts in English and History (with great distinction) at Trinity Western University, BC, and is eager to share her knowledge in and enthusiasm for Greek and Roman mythology with DIGIVATIONS students. Read More...
|
|
|
