Create Your Block
CREATE
Design your Minecraft skinpack.
BUILD
Build your classroom block.
CONNECT
Join the national Hands Across America chain.
The Hands Across Minecraft Build Battle League
Competition Levels
1. School Build Battles
Students form teams within their classroom or school and compete in their first Minecraft Build Battle challenge.
Teams design civic-themed builds such as:
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Future cities
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Community parks
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Schools of the future
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Landmarks representing their town
Winning teams advance to the next level.
2. City & Regional Championships
Top teams compete in regional Build Battles, where students represent their school, town, or city.
These events bring together classrooms from across the region to celebrate creativity, collaboration, and community pride.
3. State Showcases
Winning regional teams advance to a state-level competition, where the strongest builds represent their communities on a larger stage.
Students present their builds and explain the ideas behind their designs.
4. National Minecraft Build Battle Championship
The best student builders from across the country advance to the National Minecraft Build Battle Championship.
Teams compete in civic-themed challenges while representing their communities in a national student competition.
The National Celebration
The competition culminates in the Hands Across Minecraft National Celebration, where students across America come together to celebrate the builds that helped create the national chain.
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Project Goals & Key Objectives
Inspire Civic Engagement
Encourage students to think about their communities and explore how creativity, collaboration, and innovation can help shape the future of their towns, cities, and nation.
Promote Teamwork and Collaboration
Build Battles require students to work together as teams, developing communication, leadership, and cooperative problem-solving skills.
Connect Learning to Real-World Skills
Students gain experience with digital design, storytelling, planning, and presentation, skills that support future careers in technology, design, engineering, and media.
Unite Students Nationwide
Build Battles help connect classrooms across America through shared creative challenges, leading to the Hands Across Minecraft national chain and celebration.
How We Make It Happen
Hands Across Minecraft brings together students, educators, communities, and technology partners to create a nationwide youth civic movement through creativity and collaboration.
Classroom Participation
Teachers introduce the program in their classrooms, where students design their Minecraft skinpacks and build their community blocks that will become part of the national Hands Across America chain.
Student Collaboration
Students work together in teams to plan and build projects inspired by their communities, civic ideas, and the future they want to create.
Build Battle Competitions
Teams participate in Minecraft Build Battles, creative competitions where students showcase their designs and represent their schools and communities.
Competitions advance from:
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School Build Battles
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Regional Competitions
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National Minecraft Build Battle Championship
National Celebration
The program culminates in the Hands Across Minecraft National Celebration, where students across America come together to celebrate the national chain built by classrooms across the country.
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Sign the Declaration
Add your voice to the largest youth civic movement in America—one block at a time.
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