Pres nominated for United Nations award
A group of students from Pres Bray who recreated their school on Minecraft are finalists in prestigious United Nations Awards.
The students, supported by teachers and local charity 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better world have used computer gaming to catapult their visions onto a global stage.
Accepting the challenge, this team sought to achieve sustainable development in a school in Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, by recreating that school in a virtual world and redesigning it to align with the SDGs using the online game Minecraft.
The group have been selected as a finalist in the innovator category of the SDG Action Campaign making them one of the top five innovators in the world working on this agenda. The group will be recognised at the Awards in Bonn in Germany this month. The group are also in the running for a People’s Choice Award which is voted on by the public.
They really appreciate any support the public could give them in this award by giving them a 5 star rating at:
http://sdgactioncampaign.org/sdg-action-awards2018-finalists/sdgs-digital-realities/
The SDG Action Campaign awards program aims to find change-makers and celebrate achievements being made in every corner of the earth, which all form a critical contribution to the international sustainable development movement.