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  • Young Men's Leadership Academy
  • San Antonio, TX
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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At YMLA, we look for interactive ways to engage our students as they learn math, science, and other critical subjects. This past year has encouraged us to think further outside the box and innovatively unite our students. We plan to recreate our school in Minecraft, building it to scale by obtaining real-life measurements from handheld tools and Google Earth. Students will use ratios to determine how many blocks in the game make up a meter and translate the measurements to proceed with their architecture. Already our students researched sea turtles so they could create a safe habitat in Minecraft Education. Other students created 3D models of plant and animal cells to demonstrate how they function. Minecraft Education is free and drastically limits what we can achieve. With Minecraft Java and computers that can effectively run the software, we can allow more than 20 students to log in at a single time. Additionally, our remote and in-person students can join together in a single Minecraft world, which is impossible with the Education version. Minecraft engages problem-solving skills and has natural applications of math and science. These encourage students to determine the number of supplies and use the supplies to create power and electricity. Students will also use spatial learning in visualizing the space needed to build landmarks. Once the Minecraft version of our school is complete, we will progress to other San Antonio landmarks: the Alamo and the Blue Hole, the source of the San Antonio River. Our teachers can take their students on virtual field trips. These computers are capable of running more than just Minecraft. With more efficient technology, we can create a foundation to grow our program with the potential for 3D printing, video editing, and coding.

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At YMLA, we look for interactive ways to engage our students as they learn math, science, and other critical subjects. This past year has encouraged us to think further outside the box and innovatively unite our students. We plan to recreate our school in Minecraft, building it to scale by obtaining real-life measurements from handheld tools and Google Earth. Students will use ratios to determine how many blocks in the game make up a meter and translate the measurements to proceed with their architecture. Already our students researched sea turtles so they could create a safe habitat in Minecraft Education. Other students created 3D models of plant and animal cells to demonstrate how they function. Minecraft Education is free and drastically limits what we can achieve. With Minecraft Java and computers that can effectively run the software, we can allow more than 20 students to log in at a single time. Additionally, our remote and in-person students can join together in a single Minecraft world, which is impossible with the Education version. Minecraft engages problem-solving skills and has natural applications of math and science. These encourage students to determine the number of supplies and use the supplies to create power and electricity. Students will also use spatial learning in visualizing the space needed to build landmarks. Once the Minecraft version of our school is complete, we will progress to other San Antonio landmarks: the Alamo and the Blue Hole, the source of the San Antonio River. Our teachers can take their students on virtual field trips. These computers are capable of running more than just Minecraft. With more efficient technology, we can create a foundation to grow our program with the potential for 3D printing, video editing, and coding.

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