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Overview
What if you could bring together the fun, adventure and limitless potential of Minecraft, and use this to help drive real positive environmental change for the next generation? Introducing EcoCraft, an innovative solution from Bratwurst & Biscuits (B&B) Incorporated, designed to make learning about sustainability and positive environmental changes a fun and rewarding experience.
EcoCraft is a Minecraft Bedrock based educational experience created for Non-Governmental Organization’s (NGO’s) working with children aged 6 to 9. It teaches simple sustainability concepts through play. Designed to captivate children, keep educators in the loop and to help NGO facilitators in their important objectives, the solution provides a fun, innovative way to ensure the next generation is aware of their responsibilities to look after our precious environments and resources
Our solution offers the following key benefits:
- Age-appropriate design with positive reinforcement of key messages
- High demo impact through instant transformations and celebration moments
- Low-code orchestration with minimal custom code
- Leverages the latest agentic AI capabilities to add polish
- Effective use of marketing automation tools to demonstrate real programme delivery.
Key Features
Innovative, Low-Code User Interfaces
- Facilitators operate an EcoCraft Control Room built with Power Apps, providing a modern, clean, accessible interface.
- EcoCraft will also include two Copilot Studio agents: EcoGuide, which provides mission explanations and facilitator talking points, and Session Narrator, which provides spoken-style narration in simple, easy to understand language.
- Both educators and facilitators are able to drilldown into information at any time leveraging the latest Microsoft Fabric capabilities.
Scalable pro-code automation
- Power Automate will be used to orchestrate simple and more complex actions, bridging together Microsoft Dataverse and Minecraft.
- Microsoft Azure and Azure Function apps host our required middleware services to facilitate communication between EcoCraft and our Minecraft Bedrock Server via Remote Console (RCON)
- Effective use of Power Platform Pipelines and Azure DevOps to realise Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI / CD)
DON’t REINVENT THE WHEEL
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights Journeys will send automated follow-up notifications via the educators, faciliators and child’s preferred channel (Email, SMS or WhatsApp).
- LinkMobility’s global platform will be used to handle the sending of SMS and WhatsApp communications
- DocumentsCorePack will be used to generate completion certification, that can then be automatically distributed to both the child and their parent.
Solution Architecture
Our Data Model
Key Personas
Children
Children are the primary users of our solution. They are given “missions” to complete directly in Minecraft, which are then tracked behind the scenes and fed back into EcoCraft. They are also receive award certifications for successfully completing each mission.
Teachers
Using EcoCraft, teachers can be kept fully appraised of all missions for their roster of students, either individually or at a group level. They are also kept fully up to date of progress via email notifications.
NGO facilitator
As the primary administrators of the solution, they can orchestrate the “missions” they want teachers and children to complete, as well as get a total view of all activity at any time, using the EcoCraft app.
Conclusion
As the world attempts to move forward with the objectives announced at COP 2025, it becomes more and more essential that the next generation is fully aware of what needs to be done to make this a reality. With our EcoCraft solution, NGO’s across the globe now how a powerful and fun way of educating children, and in driving forward important environmental messages and behaviours.
About our Team
Combining together the very best of British biscuits and German savoury fare, team Bratwurst & Biscuits is a truly international effort of (mostly) Microsoft Most Valuable Professional’s (MVP’s). The MVP team is delighted to back again at ACDC for a second year, this time with lots of biscuits, sweets, tea and associated treats that we are happy to offer to other team members.
Also happy to promote event as well…
Through ingenuity, connections and good degree of begging, we have also been able to secure Azure Credits, which we are happy to share with our team members. Please come to our table and we can get you setup with $150 of credits that you can use when building your solution. Already some teams have done this 😉
