Microsoft Education Expands Grant Program, Updates Minecraft

Microsoft Education Expands Grant Program, Updates Minecraft

Today Microsoft Education made these STEM related announcements:

  • Microsoft announced a new Aquatics Update for Minecraft: Education Edition and a new collection of teacher-written, inquiry-based lesson plans in partnership with BBC Learning to compliment the BBC Earth and OCEANX film, Oceans: Our Blue Planet.
  • The MR Limitless Libraries Fund: a grant program designed to help foster mixed reality adoption in education and is opening up applications to middle and high schools, as well as public libraries. The program will be open to any educator and include professional development and support.

[What’s New: New Tools for Schools]

For more information, visit the Microsoft Education blog