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WHIMC Education
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WHIMC is a National Science Foundation-funded research project and interdisciplinary collaboration between several organizations dedicated to cutting-edge and impactful informal learning.

The goal of WHIMC is to develop computer simulations that engage, excite, and generate interest and engagement in STEM. WHIMC leverages Minecraft Java Edition as a learning environment for learners to interactively explore the scientific consequences of alternative versions of Earth via “what if?” questions, such as “What if the earth had no moon?” or “What if the earth were twice its current size?” as well as other emerging astronomy inquires, like “What would it take to terraform mars?” or “How do we mine asteroids?” Kids get to explore these as aspiring scientists and engineers on an interactive server that changes to match their interests. Check out our worlds! Or read more about the research.

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Returning WHIMC Campers
How to get back to your mars base
posted 02/19/2024 1:36 pm
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WHIMC Research: AI and Pedagogical Agents
EDIT: 100's of drawings, interviews, surveys, etc EACH - at that scale of data - vs 1000's of observations, science tools uses, movement patterns, etc 0:00:24 What is WHIMC 0:00:54 Context of data co...
posted 08/10/2023 1:27 pm
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Celestial Bodies goes live
Minecraft 1.19.3 and official support for some crazy celestial worlds! From ChrisDaCow and Sr_Mustard
posted 02/23/2023 4:28 pm
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WHIMC Educator Walk-Through part 2
A comprehensive walk-through explaining how to go through the five "what-if" hypothetical earth stages on the WHIMC server. Intended to be paired with our teacher guides found at https://whimcproject....
posted 02/22/2023 2:46 pm
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CSTL Seminar
An overview of WHIMC for the College of Education at UIUC. 27 September 2022
posted 09/28/2022 2:51 pm
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MineObserver 2.0
A Deep Learning & In-Game Framework for Evaluating Scientific Observations in Minecraft. A video explaining the work detailed in: Mahajan, J., Hum, S., Ginger, J., & Lane, H. C. (2022). MineObserver:...
posted 09/21/2022 7:54 pm
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Earth with TWO Moons
This Earth has captured a second moon that is similar in size and mass to its original and its orbit is twice as close. This has tremendous effects on Earth and the people that will live there. The ti...
posted 02/28/2022 3:26 pm
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Earth as a Moon (Mynoa + Tyran)
Our Earth and its companion moon, which has about 1/81 as much mass as the Earth, waltz together around the Sun. What would life be like on an “earth-like” world, let’s call in Mynoa, orbiting a...
posted 02/16/2022 5:04 pm
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WHIMC 1.18 - Galaxy Update
Sr_Mustard is helping us to add some super cool new maps to the server as we get it updated for 1.18 and even better exoplanets. Join us in exploring the origins of the universe through Minecraft.
posted 01/13/2022 8:54 pm
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Journey Plugin Demo November 2021

posted 11/09/2021 9:17 pm
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