A screenshot shows the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation students created in Minecraft.
The University of Windsor Engineering Students’ Society is bringing campus to the screens of students learning from home.
The society has created a replica of the University of Windsor campus on Minecraft — a video game that allows you to create a virtual world with Java programming.
Students can explore each floor of the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation and take a stroll through UWindsor’s campus peppered with lush trees, flower beds and even its Promise campaign billboards.
“Since we are all stuck inside on our computers for the remainder of the semester, it’s important to keep the sense of campus community,” says Theo Sancartier, president of the Engineering Students’ Society.
“With this Minecraft server, we hope to have students interacting in a way no one thought of before.”
Sancartier says the society’s executive committee and other volunteers spent the entire summer creating the server to ensure incoming students had a memorable experience and felt connected to campus.