Minecraft free for every Northern Ireland Secondary School

Minecraft is praised by its focus on creativity, building and exploration. B2pconnections.com Learn about architecture and construction as well as the joy of creating your own world. The game's open nature has given birth to countless mods that teach budding builders about coding, geography and art. Recognising its power as an educational tool the game is free to download game is now being offered to every secondary school in Northern Ireland.

The organizers of CultureTECH, a festival that takes place every year for the technology and creative industries have received funding from the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure to provide more than 200 schools with download codes. Each license is for MinecraftEdu an exclusive version of Minecraft specifically designed for classroom use. While it's not uncommon to see Minecraft in schools, this is the first time the game has been distributed across an entire region. Do you wish you could have been a student again?

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Minecraft is free for every Northern Ireland secondary school