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CIRMS President’s Welcome| 4.19.16
Polycraft World: A Minecraft Modification that Motivates Materials Mastery
1969 – Incorporated as UT Dallas 2015 – Fearlessly engineering the future
Shelbi Parker1, Christina Thompson1, Jim Amato2, Benjamin Lund1, Christian Cortes1, Ronald A. Smaldone1 and Walter Voit1,2
1: The University of Texas at Dallas2: Syzygy Memory Plastics
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Acknowledgements
2UT Dallas
• APRL Management: Connie Manz, Renata Freindorf, MSE/ME/CHEM/BE staff• APRL Alumni: Dr. Yuvaraj Haldorai, Dr. Wenzhe Cao, Dr. Taylor Ware, Dr. Yulong Shen, Dr. Benjamin Lund• APRL Post Docs (UTD): Dr. Randy Allen, Dr. Alexandra Joshi‐Imre, Dr. Dongmei Shao, Dr. Xiling Tang, Dr. Adrian
Avendano‐Bolivar, Dr. Gerardo Gutierrez‐Heredia, Dr. David Arreaga‐Salas• APRL Graduate Researchers: Cary Baur, Gregory Ellson, Tony Kang, Romil Modi, Jonathan Reeder, Radu Reit,
Aldo Garcia‐Sandoval, Dustin Simon, Kejia Yang, Mahmoud Hosseini, Faisal Mahmoud• APRL Undergraduate Researchers: Vedika Agrawal, Hans Ajieren, Jeremiah Amato, Nicole Aragon, Raheel Ata,
Pramukh Atluri, Grant Beall, Thomas Blodgett, Priyatham Burgadda, Xavier Carrier, Brian Cash, Eric Chen, Raiyan Choudhury, Connor Cone, Francesca Daigle, Allie Dyson, Jesus Espinoza, Andrew Ford, Caitlynn Fortner, Alma Garay Romero, Benjamin Gardner, Harshita Guduru, Saud Hassan, Karina Kinghorn, Anurag Madan, Ryan Mani, Adam Mendonca, Mahir Moin, Derrick Ngo, John Nguyen, Danny Park, Shelbi Parker, Sakthi Rajendran, Josh Salazar, Robert Secheli, Megan Seymour, Pooshan Shah, Jake Sporrer, Conan St. John, Christopher Stephenson, Alex Tomkovich, Andrew Wei, John Will, Victoria Wobser, Imad Zahid, Daniel Zamorano
• Funding Sources: UT Dallas, NSF IGERT grant 0221600, NSF Partnerships for Innovation, FDA Medical Countermeasures, DARPA RPI (Plexon), Venture Lab 1803002 and 1803005, PURA grants, NSF SBIR 0912586 Phase I, Phase IB, and Phase II, McDermott Scholars Program, Syzygy Memory Plastics, FUSION and the State of Texas, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (×3), DARPA Young Faculty Award
• Corporate Sponsors: Texas Instruments, Qorvo, Plexon, Syzygy Memory Plastics, Adaptive 3D Technologies, Ares Materials, GlaxoSmithKline, Halliburton
• Adaptive 3D Tech team: Dr. Benjamin Lund, Dr. Brent Duncan, Jim Amato, Jesse Huffstetler, Grant Beall
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Group Lecture
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Individual Attention
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Student Messes
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Student Successes
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Hot to the touch
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Frozen solid
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Frozen attention(and this is really hard with 30, 4th graders)
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Dancing to the music
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This is why science is fun
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RISE Resources
• $1000 setup costs• Minimal event‐to‐event expenses
– Bananas and racquetballs– Cornstarch and popsicle sticks– Liquid nitrogen– Notecards and Paperclips– Rubber bands and shape memory polymers
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The RISE Team
• 1 Faculty Member• 5 Graduate Students• 30 Undergraduates
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Magnitude
• Contacted >100 teachers in Fall 2013 from Plano ISD, Dallas ISD and Richardson ISD
• Gave 6 local demonstrations and lectures to date at elementary, middle and high schools
• Have set up more than 25 additional events in 2014• Hosted a RISE event at NIST during one of my conferences in DC
• Major problem: we are bandwidth limited
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Polycraft World
A Mod for the Popular Video Game Minecraft
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An Introduction to Minecraft
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The World – Tabula Rasa
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Building and crafting toward success
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Nightfall
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Danger
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Hunger
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Goods Storage
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Magic and Enchantments
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Exploring
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Transportation in the elements
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Minecraft Trains architects
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Minecraft trains electrical engineers
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Features that make Minecraft so much fun and so addictive • Asynchronous and aperiodic rewards• Self‐imposed goals and objectives• No one tells you what to do (or so you think)• Threats to survival (early versions = boring!)• Learning by doing at your own pace• Extensive documentation and wiki‐style help• Resource, land, time management• Deep satisfaction from completing projects• Massively multiplayer to co‐create with friends
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Minecraft statistics
LOGINS•241,920,000 logins per month•1,000 logins per hour•4,000 logins per second after 1.0 launch
FILES•2 billion files downloaded by the launcher•11,000 skin downloads per second
SYSTEMS•10 million copies on Xbox 360•1 million copies on PlayStation 3•10 million copies of Pocket Edition•100 million registered users on PC alone
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How can we scale RISE orders of magnitude? …through Minecraft.
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We are trying to…
…transform higher education through video games, neuroscience, materials and a love of tinkering.
http://www.polycraftworld.comhttp://polycraft.utdallas.edu
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Polycraft World
• Outreach to young and not‐so‐young adults• Basic and advanced training in polymer processing, energy and thermodynamics
• Failure: <100,000 users• Full Success: incorporation into vanilla build which is more popular than World of Warcraft with more then 100 million eager students of the “game”
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Outreach platform• Added 4,000 items into Minecraft including 100 polymers and thousands of chemicals
• Incorporated items into game to seem “fun” and not educational
• Tap into basic desires in Minecraft for students to teach themselves polymer chemistry