{"id":108405,"date":"2022-03-28T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=108405"},"modified":"2022-07-01T15:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:45:30","slug":"bentley-systems-digital-twin-design-contest-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bentley-systems-digital-twin-design-contest-students\/108405\/","title":{"rendered":"[Video] Bentley Systems announce Digital Twin Design contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bentley Systems has announced its Digital Twin Design Challenge, a design contest for students to reimagine a real-world location with a structure designed with Minecraft<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7kVpt3ulHzg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/digital-twins-benefits\/99986\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Twin<\/a> Design Challenge, students will use the Minecraft video game to take a real-world location and design a new structure within it.<\/p>\n<p>The top 20 finalists will receive USD 500 each and the winner will receive USD 5,000. The winner from the popular vote category will win a prize of USD 2,000.<\/p>\n<p>The design contest is open to students aged between 12-25 years from secondary schools, high schools, community colleges\/schools, polytechnics, technical institutes, and universities.<\/p>\n<h3>Designs must be in the form of superstructures<\/h3>\n<p>Students can design structures that address issues such as environmental sustainability, architectural aesthetics, population growth, or solve a specific engineering challenge. The designs can be in the form of any superstructure, such as a building, bridge, monument, park, train station, or airport.<\/p>\n<p>Students will then export the structure as a 3D model and place it within the real-world location using the Bentley iTwin platform. They will also be required to submit a short essay describing the concept behind their design.<\/p>\n<h3>Students will demonstrate their creativity through Minecraft and explore Bentley\u2019s iTwin<\/h3>\n<p>Katriona Lord-Levins, chief success officer, Bentley Systems, said: &#8220;This challenge is continuing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/bentley-education\/92931\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bentley Education<\/a>\u2019s mission of nurturing future professionals for careers in engineering, design, and architecture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want students to show their creativity using Minecraft and explore the potential of Bentley\u2019s iTwin technology to tackle a challenge facing the world\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<h3>Encourage students to consider infrastructure engineering as a career<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;And, along the way, we want to inspire and encourage students to learn about infrastructure engineering as a possible career and expose them to the opportunities that lie ahead, with infrastructure going digital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Students must <a href=\"https:\/\/education.bentley.com\/Organized\/bentleyHosted-624493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register<\/a> and submit their projects before March 31, 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bentley Systems has announced its Digital Twin Design Challenge, a contest for students to reimagine a real-world location with a structure designed with Minecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141293],"tags":[428,85810,594,172720,3649,636,172727,943],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172387],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-digital-construction-news","7":"tag-bim","8":"tag-bim-video","9":"tag-building-design","10":"tag-digital-twins","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-engineering","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-sh-bentley-systems","15":"stakeholder_rel_tag-bentley-systems"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Video] Bentley Systems announce Digital Twin Design contest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bentley Systems announces Digital Twin Design Challenge, a contest for students to reimagine a real-world location with a structure designed with Minecraft\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bentley-systems-digital-twin-design-contest-students\/108405\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Video] Bentley Systems announce Digital Twin Design contest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bentley Systems announces Digital Twin Design Challenge, a contest for students to reimagine a real-world location with a structure designed with Minecraft\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bentley-systems-digital-twin-design-contest-students\/108405\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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