Winning Students in Bentley Education’s Digital Twin Design Challenge Reimagine Apartment Living

The contest invited students from age 12-25 years to combine their imagination and creativity and explore infrastructure digital twins, providing an opportunity to reimagine a real-world structure designed with the popular Minecraft video game and Bentley’s iTwin technology.

The contest awarded two prizes: a Judge’s Choice winner with a prize of USD 5,000 and a People’s Choice winner with a prize of USD 2,000. The second-place projects in each category received USD 1,000.

Katriona Lord-Levins, chief success officer, Bentley Systems, said, “We wanted to give students a firsthand experience exploring digital twin technology, and let them have some fun using Minecraft. We were amazed by the creativity the students demonstrated with their projects and by how incredibly thoughtful and detailed they were. Some of the projects addressed the problems and challenges that are important for the future of infrastructure. The talent displayed gives us a great deal of confidence that the future of infrastructure is in good hands. Our younger generations are thinking ahead about the challenges we will need to face to improve the world.”