H20 Esports Campus, together with its partners online, is going to recreate seven Children's Hospitals of Orange. This is happening as part of RTL Project Smile, in which various programs, channels and partners of RTL are donating money to Children's Hospitals of Orange Foundation. RTL Project Smile will start on Monday, December 13 and end on Friday, December 17.
This Monday we will start to recreate the seven children's hospitals on real scale in Minecraft. Of course, we are not doing this alone. We are being helped voluntarily by children, schoolchildren and students who, together with the expertise from H20, are going to produce a fantastic result.
We are still looking for experienced Minecraft builders who can help us bring this project to a successful conclusion. These young people can sign up at minecrafthospitalheroes.nl to sign up for the Minecraft Hospital Heroes. We need many builders, so there is always a spot available.
Minecraft Hospital Heroes
The Minecraft Hospital Heroes consist of a number of partners who are active within the H20 Esports Campus, such as Minecraft architect and master builder Thomas Bosch. Thomas has his own company called Cubefields and, just like last year, he is taking on the coordination of the construction.
"This year we are going a step further, because we are now also going to recreate the inside of the children's hospitals. This will make it possible for children to have a look inside before their stay in the hospital. But the children staying in the children's hospital can also participate in building and continue to build in order to make their stay more pleasant. Again, we hope that many schoolchildren and students will help us to achieve our goal of building all children's hospitals in the Netherlands," said Thomas Bosch.
During the challenge, Bosch will lead the Minecraft construction team of the Minecraft Hospital Heroes via the online platform Discord.
In addition, every day this week free Minecraft workshops will be given by Toine Rohner of Twaanlab from 17.00 to 17.30 hrs. Miranda Huybers will also help to build the children's hospitals with her esports team Team Wall and several influencers. Faber Audiovisuals will also contribute to the livestream and video production.
Donations are welcome per hospital, but it is also possible to donate money to the entire Project Smile.
Successful edition
This is not the first time that H20 Esports Campus has featured Minecraft Hospital Heroes. During the Minecraft Hospital Heroes 2020, 200 school students recreated dozens of Dutch hospitals on a real scale in the video game Minecraft. The event ended up raising more than 20,000 euros for charities and staff associations, including the Dijklander Hospital in Purmerend.
Dirk Tuip, H20-CEO: "From the contacts established last year came the idea to do something for RTL Project Smile and after this the link to building the children's hospitals in Minecraft was quickly made."
By rebuilding the hospitals, H20 can offer schoolchildren an educational challenge that allows them to go into the Christmas vacations with the experience of having built real hospitals to scale along with others. "We therefore hope that schools and teachers will help make this action known to their students so that we show how gaming can contribute to skills such as creativity, collaboration and communication and, of course, tech," Tuip said.
Those who don't help build can of course follow the construction live at minecrafthospitalheroes.nl