Students build ACS (I) campus on Minecraft

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Students who visited the Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (ACS(I)) campus for its open house activities did not set foot on the red bricks of its assembly square.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Students who visited the Anglo-Chinese School ) campus for its open house activities did not set foot on the red bricks of its assembly square.With school activities limited due to the Covid-19 outbreak, students got creative and found a way to welcome potential students to their campus online.

Club president Aloysius Wong, 17, first conceived the idea when he saw videos of other schools built online. While his friends were familiar with Minecraft, where players gather materials to build structures from their imagination, they had never attempted a project on such a scale. Communicating via chatrooms, the group referred to Google Maps to gauge the proportions of the buildings and examined pictures for details, recreating most of the main areas in the school.

 

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