Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?

VWEC Student Challenge 2025

Brief

World leaders came together in 2015 and made a historic promise to secure the rights and well-being of everyone on a healthy, thriving planet when they adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Today, with the world suffering a range of crises from climate change to a shifting geopolitical situation these goals seem even more important to the future well-being of citizens across the globe.

You task is to select one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and develop a presentation to explain what it means and how it might be achieved. Each team will choose from the relevant list below and design a virtual education experience explaining what the goal means and what needs to be done so that it can be fulfilled. The team will then build a simulation of this in Second Life. The build must be:
• accessible,
• authentic,
• interactive,
• and cite sources

When it is finished you will record a 5 minute video presenting your simulation to the judges.

Choose from the following options

Red Team
• No poverty or
• Good Health and Well-being or
• Quality Education

Blue Team
• Zero hunger or
• Affordable and Clean Energy or
• Reduced Inequalities

Green Team
• Climate Action or
• Life Below Water or
• Life on Land

Here is a link to a video showing some of the simulations built by students competing last year.