Together, Anne and Steven Berman combine over 50 years of engineering, science, technology, artistic, academic, legal and business experience in supporting DIGIVATIONS™ Education Ventures and the DIGIVATIONS™ INSTITUTE.  Steven Lee 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).  Anne Deane Berman holds a BM from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and a MA/PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara in music composition with an emphasis on music technology.   Anne is an internationally performed composer whose music and works have been performed in more than 75 venues in over a dozen countries (Carnegie Hall, Goteborg Museum of Art: Sweden - see annedeaneberman.com). They have collaborated on creating, producing and performing on a global scale, experiential interactive installations which blend art and technology to support thematic STEM+ARTS+MOVEMENT learning and teaching.  Steve originally created DIGIVATIONS™ to sustain Anne’s and his work in developing and directing a University of California-systemwide industry/university/state matching grants research program which generated a net technology commercialization impact of $300 million in the areas of alternative energy, distributed computing, precision agriculture, security, space exploration, 21st Century medicine, and intelligent transportation systems and robotics, among others. 

Anne and Steve also have more then 30 years of collective teaching and research experience at the K-12 and university levels. They are former faculty at UCLA, UCSB, ISU in the US, as well as UBC and GNWC, BC, Canada based institutions, among others. Anne and Steve are LEGO® Education Academy Teacher Trainers.  Steve has created and lectured at many multidisciplinary international forums in collaboration with industry, university and government agency stakeholders which address STEM thematic issues most notably in California, and throughout the US and BC, Canada, specifically as founder of the Transformative Media Consortium and the non-profit DIGIVATIONS INSTITUTE, created to bring our curriculum to under resourced communities.  Steve has also created collaborations among provinces and states, notably the California-BC, Canada Collaborative that served as the foundation for the more formalized Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership.