Creating an immersive Minecraft Education map to help students discover vocational careers

Hello,

I am a vocational high school teacher in France, specialized in mechanical construction and sheet metal fabrication / boilermaking.

I am currently developing, on my own, an immersive virtual tour of our sheet metal workshop in Minecraft Education. The goal is to introduce middle school students to the boilermaker / sheet metal worker profession through an engaging and interactive experience.

The project would include:

• scripted NPC dialogues;
• a guided educational tour;
• custom machine models;
• custom items and objects;
• mini-games;
• interactive workshop areas;
• a progression system inspired by Hour of Code experiences;
• educational challenges linked to safety, materials, forming, welding, assembly and quality control.

The idea is not only to show the workshop, but to let students experience the job through a short mission-based scenario.

For example, the visit could follow this structure:

Workshop entrance
→ Safety equipment room
→ Safety mini-game
→ Machine discovery
→ Interactive challenge
→ Welding / forming / assembly activity
→ Quality control
→ Final debriefing

• Resource Packs and Behavior Packs;
• NPC dialogues and branching scenes;
• custom entities / blocks / models;
• compatibility with Minecraft Education;
• commands and functions for progression systems;
• possible UI customization;
• best practices for sharing the world with other schools.

I would also be very interested in feedback from teachers, map makers, add-on creators or people who have already built educational Minecraft experiences.

In the longer term, I would be open to creating a series of maps around the theme “Discovering Professions”, designed for middle school students and career guidance activities.

These maps could each focus on a different career path, with:

• strong storytelling;
• custom objects and tools;
• custom machine or workplace models;
• playful mini-games;
• educational challenges;
• links to vocational training and further studies.

The objective would be to help students discover technical and vocational careers in a more immersive, modern and engaging way.

Would anyone have resources, examples, contacts, advice, or recommendations to help structure and develop this kind of Minecraft Education project?

Thank you very much!