Minecraft Esports

Unleash students’ creativity in ready-made immersive Minecraft worlds designed to support learning through team build battles, coding challenges, and role-based strategy games. Minecraft Esports offers students and educators a platform for creative, collaborative, and competitive engagement. Four unique collections of multiplayer challenges, from build-battle style arenas and coding-based practice plazas to a ‘ready to play’ tournament, Minecraft Esports help build critical social-emotional skills in a safe, secure competitive environment.

TRY THESE FIRST!

The Make and Model collection is an easy way to explore esports and jumpstart Minecraft Esports in your classroom. These eleven battle-style worlds promote social emotional skills and new pathways for leaning and assessment

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Challenge Series

Build your first tournament with the ready-made Challenge Series. This collection of Minecraft skills and esports challenges progressively build skills to ensure inclusion in your esports program. From skill-based build challenges to playoff rounds arenas, the Challenge Series is a ready-to-compete tournament template for learning.

Make & Model

Eleven exciting arenas for build battles and two new practice plazas are available in Make & Model. Each of these worlds is designed to inspire students in pirate coves, fantasy gardens and mysterious, magical libraries, and encourage collaboration, problem solving, and communication skills.

Code 2 Create

Perfect for any level of coding or computer science learners, Code 2 Create expands opportunities in esports and integrate coding skills into students build battles. Teams compete in build battles that center around coding skills, 3D design and computational thinking. Teams can also 3D print builds with the in-built structure block.

Creative Clash

Creative Clash is a series of Minecraft esports worlds with challenging multi-player games where students must take on team-based roles and work together to win. Creative Clash worlds promote creative, competitive, and collaborative play through teamwork, strategy, decision-making, and communication.

BECOME AN ESPORTS EDUCATOR TODAY!

Learn how to leverage your students’ passion for esports to help improve their social-emotional well-being, develop 21st century learning skills, and learn how to be responsible digital citizens. Esports also prepares students for a variety of careers, including: information & technology, marketing, event planning, game design, communications, graphic arts, and many more.

Learn the steps to establish a inclusive team culture, to gather the necessary resources to start and grow your scholastic esports program, and to unleash students’ creativity in ready-made, immersive, Minecraft worlds designed specifically for competitive gaming. Esports: More than just a game - Microsoft Educator Center.

ESPORTS PLAYBOOK: HOW TO PLAY AND INTEGRATE ESPORTS INTO LEARNING

The evidence-based Esports Educator Framework provides teachers with a robust understanding of esports in the classroom and the power of competitive game-based learning to build new skills connected to STEM-infused esports careers. Informed by research and practical advice from esports education leaders, the framework offers teachers the playbook for Minecraft esports success.

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Chapter outline from the Esports Educator Framework.

The Battle of the Boroughs esports event takes place in a New York City skyline.

SEE ESPORTS IN ACTION

The Battle of the Boroughs, an esports event hosted by the New York City Department of Education with Minecraft and Cxmmunity, invited thousands of students to build a more sustainable, equitable city. Teams competed in timed challenges in a Minecraft arena and winners were selected to compete in a live build challenge, broadcast on Twitch and ESPN.

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