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So again,

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I have been a proponent of Minecraft
since forever.

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I think the first time that I watched
my son

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use Redstone to make a complicated machine

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inside the game, I realized the STEM
capacity was outrageous.

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Like, I think we look at Minecraft
and say, like you

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said, it just eight bit blocks
that you're moving around,

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but it is so much more exciting.

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Yeah, there are so many layers to it.

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Like if you get into the coding
and like as you're in that,

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it can just keep developing more
and more skills in that.

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And so I think one of the things is it
would because I know that in past MOREnet

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did have like resources within Minecraft
of of building locations with students.

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Yeah we had a server.

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Yeah you guys had a server running
and I think you’re running the pyramids

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like you had all the pyramids

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where we could go through and do tours
with students through the pyramids.

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And so I think like getting on board
with the,

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the current NASEF
and looking at what the Rube

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Goldberg challenge,
I think is one of my favorites.

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Oh, there used to be a

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it was a

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PC app and it was called
The Incredible Machine.

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And I played that obsessively.

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Oh, yeah.

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And it was you would just get a challenge
and you would be

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given pieces and a simple goal.

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And they got bigger and bigger.

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And I just I fell in love with them,

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with Rube Goldberg machines, you know,

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cracking egg and at least 60 steps,
you know that.

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Yeah. It's just it's so fun.

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And the thing is, the part of playing Rube
Goldberg in Minecraft

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is not that it's going to fail
because it's a mechanical machine

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that doesn't like
when we make things in Rube Goldberg.

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There's always that possibility.

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Like, I ran it this time and it didn't
succeed because it flung the egg across.

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It did something completely different
and you're not gonna run into it.

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But the creativity
that the students come up with,

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how to do all these different things,
and then they're really deep diving

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into the mechanics
of what Minecraft can do.

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That's where I get excited
when I see some of the things and like,

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they're like, Well,
there's no way that could fail.

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Well, yeah, it's because it's a it's, it's
computer program.

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And when we set a computer program,
that's why we do those things. Yeah.

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You know, it's
kind of like teaching people,

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Why do we do robotics and in program,
the robotics and server have a person.

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It's because every time we're going to do
it, there is going to be that anomaly.

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There's
going to be that change in the program.

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Whereas if we have the robots do it, it's
going to be the same way every time.

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And so I would love to get back into with
with more and like really have our own

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maybe Missouri challenges of
what can we do, you know, farm craft,

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the solar car.

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I think there are so many other challenges

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we could come up with in the state
and say, okay, hey, you guys have this.

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Let's
see what you can do for this competition.

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Let's make up competition.

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So I think we can do cybersecurity.

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I mean, there's so many
you know how it is.

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I know there's so many possibilities.

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We're definitely doing

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you know, we're doing
the cybersecurity stuff

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with like cyber dot
org in the cybersecurity challenges,

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but it's that kind of thing
in the e-sports environment

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and in Minecraft or, you know, whatever,
whatever we can do to help.

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I think that's the next step

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that I want to explore because I think
that's something that, you know, we've got

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we keep saying, you know, well, we've
got a makerspace, we've got a makerspace.

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Yeah,
but there's so much more to it than that.

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And what we have
is a space and technology available

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that a lot of schools
don't have to participate in these times.

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So, yeah,

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and I think

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the one thing about the Minecraft
and why I think this is a game changer,

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doing it with Minecraft is what we
what we found in these sports.

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The thing that is really the draw is like
I said this, the scholarships, right?

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And if you can do that like we do,
you can win an award like that.

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You know, there's $1,000 reward.

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But if you do something fantastic
and here is programing and says, well,

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let me give you a scholarship to come here
because I like what you're doing here.

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I see the creativity.

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Like I said, there's
so many different levels

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to it's not just engineering,
but we get creativity going on as well.

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Graphic arts, you know, design,
like there's all these other pieces

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and components that are going in there.

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I think as we develop that, we could see
kids getting scholarships to go to school

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because and like you said, get even
get into the job of the background of it.

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How amazing would that be?

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I mean, this is like driving into it

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Well, and I think a lot of the “why”
comes out in that you know, it's

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a lot of kids.

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My daughter did this with Java writing.

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She wrote a Java

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mod and ended up being like a dragon
that flew through the environment.

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And she had big guys on the backside
of Minecraft that were helping her

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write this.

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And she eventually got it,
got it down and got it working.

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And she walked by
and she was having a problem

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with some subroutine or something
like that, not working like she wanted to.

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And she asked me and I was like,
No idea what you're doing.

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No. Yeah, yeah.

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You know,

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I mean, we wanted to teach you coding
and we started to do HTML with her

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and she lost her mind.
She was like, I hate is this stupid?

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I don't see the point.
And now I'm like, Well, wait a minute.

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You just wrote a Java subroutine
to make a dragon fly through Minecraft.

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I can't do that.

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Why did it
why all of a sudden is coding cool?

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Well, because it's a dragon
and it's in Minecraft, right?

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Right. Like, they can visualize it
and they can see it in there.

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And for them, like for us

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HTML doing web design and stuff like that,
we could see it.

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But they literally are seeing their work
in progress as their development.

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And a lot of kids
consider that they're game designer

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and that's really a lot of kids
want to be that that game designer.

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And here they are.
There's so much in Minecraft.

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I thought it was interesting
when we just started this year,

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you know, those four girls are there

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and we don't officially have a team
because spring is when it happens.

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What we were doing was

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in one of the things I tell everybody is
sometimes

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you don't always start with a team.
You start with a club, right?

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And because you got to figure out the hows
and whys and when and you know,

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because it can be here every time,
there's got to be this commitment level.

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So maybe if I come as a

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just we're not a team, we're just a club
that hangs out.

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I'm not required to be here all the time.

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And then we find out, Oh, I really
like this, so I really want to come.

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I got to talk to my parents
and I want to be here all the time.

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But when we're So right now,
these four girls are a club.

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But it was funny because the guys that are
there playing are like Minecraft.

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You guys are doing stuff in Minecraft.

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Can I quit and go play Minecraft?
You know?

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And these are guys that are Overwatch
team,

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like even Alex Cole was like,
Can I go play Minecraft now?

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You know, because I want to go
play Minecraft with them.

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I wanna see what they're doing, you know?

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So Minecraft spans
all the students, you know,

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you're not going to see these four girls
going over and playing Overwatch.

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They're going to go and play Rocket
League.

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But it's amazing that the Rocket League
players will come to Minecraft,

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the Overwatch players
will come to Minecraft.

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You know, the Smash Brothers,
everybody, all kids,

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I think, have this commonality
between Minecraft.

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Well, it's it's not as threatening
as some of those other games.

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I mean, if you really boil it down
and look at it,

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it's just it's not as you're
not you're not going to get into a fight.

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You're not there's not that toxic back
side to it that some games have.

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Right. Right.

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I think that's what turns a lot
of especially girls off of it is because

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they it'll it'll make you look at that
and go this is dumb why are we

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you know why are we do why are we talking
trash talking to each other, you know.

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Right.

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I thought it was funny in our discord
we were looking at when they said,

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you know,
we created the Minecraft in Discord

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and that really blew it up

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when they saw the Minecraft group in play,
that was like, what?

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You know, here it is.

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And they're like,
well, what are they going to you know,

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are they playing Swordcraft like they are
these competitive FPS in Minecraft?

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And they're like,
no, they're doing like these

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robotic challenges and stuff like that.

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And interesting that in turn
the guys who are

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first person shooters away
are these competitive?

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They're like, Oh really?

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Oh, there's a challenge as a team,
something besides each other.

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Yeah, right.
There's this thing that we can do.

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And I've always said

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that creativity just feeds right
like every kid loves to create.

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I always said that Minecraft
is the digital sandbox.

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Like when we were kids made roads
and we made all these hills

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and everything, the sandbox and
and literally this is the digital sandbox.

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This is where they can go in
and just explore, build, design

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and make what they see in their head
come to life in a virtual environment.

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I will tell you, this is

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my story of probably why I'm so passionate
about Minecraft.

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Back when teacher gaming
had Minecraft, you, I paid for it.

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I paid for it out my own pocket
for a summer program because I was like,

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I'm willing to put forth my money
to see this succeed.

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And we broke up into three groups.

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We broke up with the beginner Minecraft
that had never played Minecraft before.

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We broke up with two kids
who had played Minecraft

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but weren't experts
and we had an expert level and just the

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it was an amazing experiment.

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Like this was so fantastic.

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The things we developed
from each one of these,

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like the beginner Minecraft
we literally had.

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And the thing was in teacher games
you could turn chat off.

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So like one of the first things we got,
we actually had people bullying each other

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almost immediately in chat
and we had to shut chat off

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and they're like, Oh, you can do that.

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You're like, Oh, you were watching us.

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And we're like, Yeah.

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And the thing is, I'll say about that,
the one girl,

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I was literally over her shoulder
as she was doing this,

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and I looked at the teacher like,
Yeah, let's cut the chat.

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You know,
the amazing thing is later in the week

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I watched that girl because a new girl
had just come into the class

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who didn't have a clue
and she jumped up out of her chair.

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She had never played Minecraft before,
so this week

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she jumped up on her chair,
went over to this girl, said, Here,

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you need to do this
and you need to do this.

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Like I was seeing a social change
happening right in front of me.

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And I was like,
This is me, our main group.

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They were just building stuff.

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But I we told them, we said,
we want you to make a model in Minecraft

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and, you know, comparable
to something in the real world.

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And I just love that.

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Like Taj Mahal,

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you know, the way
we were seeing the Dubai Tower,

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like some kid literally made the Devi
Tower and I was like, What did you do?

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Go home and dissolve? Like,
This is a massive event.

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So we had these challenges
and it's three weeks of summer school,

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and each week they wrote like they
they went out of science

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and they would go somewhere else and we
had kids coming back for credit recovery.

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And they were speeding
through credit recovery

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because they were told, if I get done
with recovery, I can go play Minecraft.

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Like again, these incentives
that we were having that we were seeing

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and and we were taking pictures
of the guys, stuff that they built

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and then putting it out there.

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And of course, again,
going back to showing off their designs,

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the best
one we had though, was the accelerator.

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So these are the kids
who live read Minecraft, right?

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And we separated them into two groups

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and said, okay, here's
the you're on an island.

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But you know, the island's going to flood.

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What are you going to do?

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That was all the instruction
we gave them to go and Google Docs,

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make a game plan,
go five days to just do that,

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and then we just sit back
and wait for the social experiment.

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And it was so funny because my son
Chris at the time was helping us do this

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because we had multiple servers
running for each one of them.

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And he said, I always waited to see
which team figured out first

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who was going to be team
captain, who was going

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to become the natural leader,
and then also figure out

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job responsibilities
like who was going to do stuff.

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And he said
it always like two or three days in,

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they would quit and go,
Hey, hey, they're going faster.

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That's what you do this. You do this.

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Like all of a sudden, it just
it was natural, you know?

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I mean, it was just organic.

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And he said

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every time all three weeks they come in
and these were all lone stars, right?

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Like, I play the best Minecraft.

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I know what I'm doing.
I don't need any help.

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And you just see this, this organic like.

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And so I tell you, Minecraft does
so much more than just playing a game.

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There is so much more to it.

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And I love
because I get to come in and judge

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whether they succeeded
or failed their thing.

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And like one kid made an ark
and they built a they like the whole team

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made this huge ark and it had a farm on it
and had all the animals.

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They had all the animals on it.

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And it was like, well, if the water
level floods, you guys are safe.

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And one kids,
they build it up on the top of it.

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And they just built this huge thing on top
like it was just so amazing.

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Watch it one one underground
and sealed it up.

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Like the the creativity
that I saw was just fantastic and.