{"id":139414,"date":"2026-02-19T23:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139414\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:41:10","slug":"battle-of-the-boroughs-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139414\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Of The Boroughs &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, February 7, the Queens Borough Semi-Finals for the 6th Annual NYC Minecraft Education Battle of the Boroughs (BOTB) Esports Competition declared the following Queens schools as finalists:<\/p>\n<p>Elementary School Winners: PS 239Q The Furious Firebirds<\/p>\n<p>Middle School Winners: P.S.\/M.S. 200 \u2013 The Magnet School of Global Studies and Leadership<\/p>\n<p>High School Winners: Young Women\u2019s Leadership School, Astoria<\/p>\n<p>The teams will participate in the finals at the NYC Video Game Festival in May.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by the NYC Mayor\u2019s Office of Media and Entertainment in partnership with NYC Public Schools, BOTB challenges K-12 students to build a more inclusive, sustainable, future-ready New York City in Minecraft while developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-191193 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Elementary.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-191197 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/high.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"558\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-191201 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Middle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2877\" height=\"2493\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elementary School Winners: PS 239Q The Furious Firebirds<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Middle School Winners: P.S.\/M.S. 200 \u2013 The Magnet School of Global Studies and Leadership<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>High School Winners: Young Women\u2019s Leadership School, Astoria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, February 7, the Queens Borough Semi-Finals for the 6th Annual NYC Minecraft Education Battle of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-139414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139414","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=139414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}