Minecraft Eduucation launches a replica of St. Peter in the Vatican

For several centuries, the Church of St. Peter stood in the Vatican as one of the most amazing features in the world-in art, architecture and architecture that formed history.

Now, for the first time ever, students can intervene within this legendary building and take over the role of those in charge of its subjects Peter here: Amnesty International Cultural HeritageThe completely new educational learning experience created in cooperation with Microsoft and the Vatican. Part of practical restoration uses artificial intelligence.

Peter here calls on students to explore St. Boutros Bachelica through interactive play that mixes history, artificial intelligence tools (AI), and solve creative problems. Learners will travel through time to reveal the rich history of Bachelica, Saint Peter while taking care of the operational restoration tasks as part of Sanbiterini, the dedicated team responsible for maintaining Saint Peter.

They will meet historical characters, investigate the main artifacts, and use simulation artificial intelligence tools. Teachers can bring this world to the semester with complementary subjects that explain the history of the Church of St. Peter and how they are digitally preserved with the help of artificial intelligence. Whether the ancient mosaic reform, or the strengthening of Renaissance architecture, or ensuring that the famous Baldachin in Bernini, students will actively participate in preserving cultural heritage – all within the exciting world of Minecraft.

This project explains to us how technology – especially artificial intelligence – can help us in preserving historical places sound for future generations. This Minecraft experience is part of the Vatican cooperation and icon and Microsoft to make St. Peter in Basilica available to anyone, while maintaining the iconic Church using digital technology.

The project started with the creation of an improved digital twin using advanced photography measuring techniques and AI. Microsoft’s Ai for Good Lab has provided the technology needed to process and analyze the photography measurement data they collected. To expand the domain of learning experience to the classroom, Microsoft and Vatican cooperated with Minecraft Educe to create Peter here.

The process of restoring an artificial intelligence process

PEER here offers two distinguished tracks by playing, making it ideal for teachers who look forward to integrating history, art, leg and digital literacy in their lessons. They start to “restore the restoration” where it takes the role of Sanpietrini, the dedicated team responsible for preserving the Church of St. Peter.

By starting to restore, students acquire a practical understanding of cultural conservation, and then we see how these efforts are Saint Peter’s Besillica during their adventure in its major halls. The learning path challenges this players to fix the main departments in Bazilica through four distinctive historical ages:

• Vatican obelisk (75 m)
• The tomb of St. Peter (400 m)
• Rotonda column (1546 m)
• Bernini’s Baldachin (1626 AD)

In a restoration mode, students actively restore the Church of St. Peter using the tools of artificial intelligence, make decisions in the actual time that provide historical visions and to lock new areas for exploration, and convert them into active buses of cultural heritage.

• Practical problems solution: Students use artificial intelligence simulation tools such as Block and
  Recovered to assess damage and identify parts of the structure you need to repair.
• Making decisions in real time: Each restoration decision has a clear impact on
  The appearance of a basilica. While players replace broken blocs or strengthen aging structures,
  They see directly how their actions help restore this historical teacher.
• Historical context: Each restoration task is set within a specific era, which provides visions
  In architectural methods and construction methods at that time. This context enriches
  The process of restoring and highlighting the development of cultural heritage for centuries.
• Open exploration: Once the restoration task is completed, it does not refresh only
  Basilica, but also open other areas of exploration. This smooth transition from
  Restore to discover reinforces the relationship between preserving the past
  Evil with its history.

Explore history in an overwhelming world

After completing the restoration, students can enter the “exploration mode” path where they become curious historians who explore the major halls and hidden secrets in Bachelaa St. Peter, which was fully restored. Students move to the building using tools such as Smart Compass for fast trade and road points control, participation with interactive holdings and NPCs within the world that reveal detailed historical accounts. Their journey turns them into active historians and curious explorers.

• Overwhelming discovery: students wander freely, interact with complex architecture
  Details and opening secret areas that reveal hidden artifacts and cultural visions.
• Interactive meetings: attractive dialogues with characters such as Michelangelo and Bernini
  Providing context views that convey the past of Basilica to life.
• Contemporary learning: It reflects each region that has been explored the architectural and cultural methods
  The effects of its time, and deepening students’ understanding of the development of the building.
• Opening secrets: While the players collect the holdings and interact with the environment,
  Additional areas are available to reach a smooth restoration with discovery.

Students are invited to document their learning using the books tool and Quill in Minecraft Eduction, draw similarities with other historical monuments, exchange the results they reached with their peers, and ultimately converting them from negative observers into active protectors of cultural heritage.

Bring Peter here to your semester

Peter is here the lesson and the overwhelming world links social studies with modern technology. Students explore simulator AI tools such as a scanner that reflects the techniques of digital photography in the real world and 3D modeling techniques used by conservative specialists and in areas such as medicine, environmental sciences and urban planning.

In addition to the experience of the game, teachers can download PowerPoint ready for the semester of the organizer and work of students that deepen participation and contextual understanding of each restoration site. These resources guarantee that teachers can integrate historical visions and the concepts of artificial intelligence smoothly and reflective demands in their lesson – which makes each step to restore the meaning of Bazilica meaningful and compatible with the goals of the semester.

Upon completion of the entire trip, students receive an official certificate that celebrates them
Achievements, which emphasizes the true influence of their newly acquired skills and recognizing them as an honorary and cultural heritage.

By developing the restoration work in the heart of Peter here, students become designer and active from preservation reserves, and they give a glimpse of our common responsibility to protect cultural treasures and the opportunity of artificial intelligence tools to support this continuous work. Watch your students discover how artificial intelligence can light up centuries of human creativity-one block at one time.

Peter here is available to all users licensed in the Minecraft Educe. Anyone can access a trial version of Minecraft Educe for free by downloading the application and logging in with the Office 365 or Microsoft 365 education accounts.