DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE

So proud of Tyler Hasman for being a successful professional in the game space!

He was once a Teaching Assistant at DIGIVATIONS—curious, generous, and already thinking beyond the boundaries of what a “class” could be. Today, he’s contributing to major titles with the World of Warcraft Classic Team, including:
• Mists of Pandaria Classic
• Cataclysm Classic
• Season of Discovery, Classic Era, and Hardcore

What’s so inspiring is that Tyler’s journey didn’t start with a straight line into gaming—it started with imagination, storytelling, collaboration, and the courage to build worlds. That’s exactly what we cultivate at DIGIVATIONS.

At DIGIVATIONS, students don’t just learn skills—they become creators, leaders, and innovators across disciplines: game design, music, storytelling, science, and global problem-solving. Tyler is one of many who took that spark and carried it into a meaningful, creative career.

If you have a young person who dreams of building worlds—whether through music, code, story, or science—this is where that journey can begin.

✨ Join us this summer and be part of a community where imagination meets real-world impact.

👉 www.campdemigod.org

Earlier this month in Amsterdam, our rental car window was smashed and several items were stolen — including six original paintings by Belgian artist Linus Haertjens. .flake

These were not decorative souvenirs. They were works we had carefully selected in anticipation of a future collaboration between DIGIVATIONS and Linus — a cross-disciplinary project integrating visual art, music, and immersive storytelling.

The estimated value of the paintings: $15,000.

Insurance reimbursement for all six works combined: $1,000.

Let that sink in.

Original art. One-of-a-kind works. Months of creative intention. Reduced to a line item under “personal property.”

We are deeply grateful that no one was harmed. And we are grateful for the Amsterdam police, who handled the report professionally.

But this experience has been a stark reminder:
Creative work is priceless in spirit — and shockingly undervalued in systems designed to “cover” it.

To Linus — your work mattered before this loss, and it matters even more now. We still believe in the collaboration we envisioned.

Art is fragile in transit.
But vision is not.

— Anne

ArtAndResilience

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Employment Upstate NY Summer Camps NASA Award Winning Work this summer at the World's First and Only Overnight Summer Camp Half-Blood, Harry Potter Camps, & Camp Fandom. Mentor like-minded youth ages 12-17 to explore Innovation & Literary themes at Cornell University.

🌍🎶 SoundQuest Summer 2026 — Where Music Meets the Planet

Inspired by the powerful new Cornell exhibit on composers tackling environmental issues, SoundQuest is doubling down on what matters: teaching young artists how to compose with purpose.

At DIGIVATIONS SoundQuest, students don’t just write music — they explore climate, science, story, and social impact through sound. The world needs composers who listen deeply and create boldly.

✨ Summer SoundQuest Dates:
📅 July 6–26, 2026
🎼 Ages 10–17
🌱 STEM + Arts + Environmental Storytelling

If your child is ready to compose music that matters, this is their summer.

Composers tackle environmental issues in new exhibit | Cornell Chronicle A multimedia Cornell University Library exhibition, demonstrating how music can be a powerful vehicle for raising environmental awareness, opens Feb. 20 at the Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance.

THIS. IS. WHAT. DIGIVATIONS CHAMPIONS! Bravo!

A fifth grader hand-wrote a letter to a university — it just turned into $11.5 million.
When Eniola Shokunbi's teacher at the Commodore MacDonough STEM Academy in Middletown, Connecticut challenged her class to design a solution for future pandemics, most people would expect a poster board project. Instead, Eniola went home, researched air filtration, and hand-wrote a letter to the University of Connecticut.
"I noticed a lot of times when the doors and windows were closed in a classroom, it would get really stuffy and my friends were often catching colds and other sicknesses," the then-ten-year-old explained. "I think it's really important for students to be able to learn in a clean and healthy environment."
Her letter landed on the desk of Marina Creed, director of the UConn Indoor Air Quality Initiative, who was already leading an effort to bring low-cost air filtration to Connecticut schools. "She hand-wrote me a letter and I was so impressed," Creed said.
Creed brought a team of scientists — all women — to Eniola's fifth-grade classroom. They taught students about air pollution and helped them build a device called a Corsi-Rosenthal Box: a brilliantly simple air filter invented during the COVID-19 pandemic by air quality expert Richard Corsi and filter manufacturer CEO Jim Rosenthal. It's just four HVAC filters arranged in a cube shape with a box fan on top, assembled in about fifteen minutes for roughly sixty dollars in hardware store supplies. Eniola and her classmates decorated theirs like an owl — their school mascot — and named it "Owl Force One."
"Just seeing how amazing and passionate these women in science were was really inspirational," Eniola said.
But this wasn't just arts and crafts. Working alongside UConn scientists, Eniola helped test the filters and track whether cleaner air actually reduced sick days in her school. Then UConn brought the device to the Environmental Protection Agency for lab testing.
The results were staggering: the sixty-dollar filter removed over 99% of airborne viruses, including the virus that causes COVID-19. "It showed that the air filter took out over 99% of viruses in the air," Eniola told NBC Connecticut. "And that it was effective."
Armed with real data, Eniola became the youngest spokesperson anyone in the Connecticut legislature had ever seen. She met the Lieutenant Governor. She presented to lawmakers. State Senator Matt Lesser didn't mince words: "Eniola is fabulous. She wows every room she's in front of. She's a real rock star."
In October 2024, Connecticut's State Bond Commission unanimously approved $11.5 million in funding through UConn's SAFE-CT program to install these air filtration systems in public schools across the state — with Eniola, now twelve years old, sitting in the room.
Her goal? Every classroom in America.
"A lot of people don't realize sometimes that the only thing standing between them and getting sick is science," Eniola said. "If we're not investing in that, then we're not investing in kids' futures."
She also says she wants to be the first female African American president of the United States. Based on what she's already accomplished before she's old enough to drive, nobody in Connecticut is betting against her.