High school and college students studying in La Junta, Colorado are working with the game Minecraft in order to create a virtual form of Bent's Old Fort. These students are part of the Immersive Education club in this area, and are trying out virtual education to make the learning a little bit more interactive. Although right now they are only using a simple video game system, they hope to eventually move up towards more engineering-based programs in the future.
The club is in it's early stages now with 20 members, but instructor Meagan Hotchkiss-Trejo predicts that with this many students the project will be completed in about two years. Students in the club now say that they were surprised to learn that they would be using video games in an educational club. Once the video game phase is over, the students will move onto Autocad and Autocad 3D. In two years when the project is completed, people from all around the world will be able to see and experience Bent's Old Fort without having to travel or leave their home.
This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc
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