Educator Resources

This handbook outlines the rules, categories, judging rubrics, and timelines for the 2025-2026 Student Challenge competition. It is designed to help participants understand expectations, prepare submissions, and stay on track throughout the entire competition process.

Dive into one of this year's themes for the Student Challenge - All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests, supported by Playing for the Planet!

Bloxels is a hands-on platform that lets users build video games by creating characters, levels, and stories using physical blocks or a digital editor. It teaches game design, storytelling, and coding skills in a fun and creative way.

Explore popular career pathways in the games industry with your students through flexible, adaptable lessons designed to inspire the next generation of game creators.

A collection of lessons showcasing a variety of professionals thriving in the dynamic games and emerging media industry.

Urban Arts’ Creative Coders program equips middle school teachers with professional development and a custom curriculum that introduces computer science through Minecraft Education and game design. This interactive, project-based approach fosters creativity, problem-solving, and engagement, making computer science accessible to diverse learners while supporting educators every step of the way.

Endstar is a free, multiplayer 3D game-creation platform that lets users build terrain, props, levels, and gameplay logic in real time, alone or with friends.

Endstar is a platform, that centers on collaborative game making, for building, testing, and playing games, built by Endless Studios.

This course expands the way educators think of games in schools and gives them a great foundation on the world of Esports in K12 Education.