STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 It\u2019s time to get ready for a battle of the boroughs, in which New York City public school students will go head to head in the video game Minecraft to help create the most inclusive future-ready city spaces.<\/p>\n
Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos announced Tuesday the launch of the official submission period of the sixth annual New York City Minecraft Education Battle of the Boroughs ahead of the fourth Mayor\u2019s Cup, in which the borough champions will compete. Top submissions will compete at an in-person E-sports qualifying round in each borough.<\/p>\n
Submissions for student teams are open and will close on Jan. 16, 2026. <\/p>\n
Information on how to join the challenge, as well as entry-level training courses for educators to bring digital gaming into their classrooms, is available on the New York City Public Schools website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Battle of the Boroughs \u2014 which was developed in partnership with Minecraft Education, the United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals, and PlaNYC: Getting Sustainability Done \u2014 is a scholastic digital gaming competition in which elementary, middle, and high school students compete to design future-ready city spaces. <\/p>\n Through the competition, students explore the five boroughs, learn more about New York City\u2019s sustainability plans, and develop valuable computer science and critical thinking skills.<\/p>\n \u201cThe annual Battle of the Boroughs competition showcases the incredible potential of our students when they\u2019re given the tools and the platform to thrive,\u201d said Aviles-Ramos. \u201cThe new funding set aside by New York City Public Schools to support this initiative will help us to celebrate and lift the creativity and innovation of our young people even further. I\u2019m proud of every student who participates, and I\u2019m grateful to the educators and partners who continue to support them every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n To participate in this challenge, students from grades K-12 can create a team of classmates (no more than five members) and submit their masterpiece online<\/a> (the submission must be made by school staff). Multiple teams per school can submit.<\/p>\n Students will be asked the following prompt: Reimagine Pier 6 at the MADE Bush Terminal Campus<\/a> in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n In the first round of the competition, students are encouraged to create alternative designs for the project.<\/p>\n Top submissions will compete at an in-person qualifying round in each borough. The borough champions will then compete for the Mayor\u2019s Cup to become NYC Battle of the Boroughs champion.<\/p>\n The Mayor\u2019s Cup will be held in the spring.<\/p>\n Any additional questions or concerns can be emailed to minecraft@schools.nyc.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 It\u2019s time to get ready for a battle of the boroughs, in which New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-12600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}