While they aren't Allowed to be on Campus, they are Able to
Students at the University of Pennsylvania are recreating their campus with "Minecraft" after COVID-19 finished their course early. Events like graduations and weddings have been moved online to "Minecraft," "Animal Crossing," and other online games since the coronavirus swept across the globe.
The majority of US colleges have moved to distance learning for the rest of the semester.
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The school year at the University of Pennsylvania, like most other US universities, is finished However, some students weren't quite ready to go home.
A group of UPenn students developed the Minecraft server and coordinated the creation of the campus over two weeks of March. Since then, they've been in contact with Columbia University and Brown University students who are working on similar projects to plan possible challenges that resemble the Hunger Games between the schools and have planned to host spring celebrations on the server.
The block-building game "Minecraft," which Microsoft bought in 2014 for $2.5 billion it has been one of the most popular games worldwide over the past decade. As of September, it had a staggering 112 million active players every month, which has reportedly grown to 145 million.
Students from colleges and universities across the US have been sent home by their schools and switched to remote learning for the remainder of the semester. Some schools made the change after the student was diagnosed with COVID-19, which is a coronavirus infection. Others did it before the student arrived. Colleges also noted the risk of bringing students back from spring break having traveled all over the world.
While they can't be on campus, Penn students recreated their campus in painstaking detail and the process is ongoing. You can check out their amazing work here.