CAS Interactive 3D community

Hello everyone,

Just a quick reminder that our CAS Interactive 3D Community meeting, Unreal Editor for Fortnite - Additional Enrichment Resources, is happening tomorrow, 9 October 2024, at 4pm. There’s still time to join us if you haven’t already!

In this session, we’ll explore UEFN enrichment resources, where learners can discover how to personalise their 3D worlds and share them with their class.

We hope to see you there!

You can register here: Unreal Editor for Fortnite - additional enrichment resources

Exciting News for Educators & Game Developers!
Earlier this year, we launched resources to help educators and students get started with Unreal Editor for Fortnite. The response has been fantastic, and I’m thrilled to announce new follow-up enrichment resources are being released next week!
To showcase these new materials, there is a webinar on Wednesday which will walk you through how these resources can enhance your curriculum or gaming projects.
Sign up here: Unreal Editor for Fortnite - additional enrichment resources
Earlier resources: Getting started in Unreal Editor for Fortnite
Whether you’re looking to expand your teaching toolkit or level up your game design skills, this event is a great opportunity to dive deeper into the possibilities of Fortnite in education.
Don’t miss out—see you there!

The Rube Goldberg Institute, in partnership with Epic Games, announces the Rube Goldberg Unreal Engine Challenge®. This interactive 3D competition invites students to use their creativity to animate a virtual Rube Goldberg Machine in the digital world.

Create, record, and submit a video of your Rube Goldberg Unreal Engine Machine that accomplishes the 2024-25 task: FEED A PET Deadline to enter is February 12, 2025.

This is an all ages contest with a junior division (under 18 years of age) and senior division (18+).

The Build a Virtual Rube Goldberg Machine in Unreal Engine Learning Kit provides a student guide, lesson plans, and project files. Additionally, a catalog of live tutorials are available to help guide participants through each learning activity. We hope you’ll join us. To learn more visit: Do you Rube? Join the contests! - Rube Goldberg Institute

Our Rube Goldberg Learning Kit is a microcourse that provides all the guidance you will need to create your own Rube Goldberg Machine in Unreal Engine. The kit includes step by step guides, videos, and all the assets you need!

Special thanks to our sponsors NASEF, Cleverlike Studios, and Intel Skills for Innovation for all their support!

Check out the teaser video here!

Hi All!
I would like to invite you to join our Epic Educator Discord server

The community has over 4000 members interested in bringing Unreal Engine, Fortnite Creative, Twinmotion, Unreal Editor for Fortnite and our other tools into the classroom. Great place to connect with other educators!

Best,
Steve

See the value in interactive 3D, but don’t know where to start? Try the Epic Educator Accelerator workshop! Learn how to effectively bring interactive 3D into your classroom with a professional development course that’s made just for you. The Epic Educator Accelerator shows secondary school teachers how to integrate a curated set of Epic tools into their classroom. This includes sessions on Unreal Engine, Fortnite Creative, Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), Twinmotion, RealityScan, and MetaHuman Creator. The Epic Educator Accelerator: Summer 2024 will run virtually on Aug 19-23, Monday- Friday, 10:00 am- 5:00 pm Sign up here
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/educators/accelerator

If you missed tonight’s session about getting started with Unreal Engine for Fortnite, here is a blog post including link to the recording: Getting started with Epic's Unreal Editor for Fortnite - Interactive 3D Community Meeting Download the free resources here: Getting started in Unreal Editor for Fortnite

On Thursday at 4 pm I’ll be joined by Rebecca Franks for an introduction to Unreal Editor for Fortnite.

Explore our new enrichment resources that will support your learners in getting started in Unreal Editor for Fortnite. In the enrichment sessions, learners can design their own 3D world and personalise it with their own objects, they can then make a fun collectable game.
Sign up here: Getting started in Unreal Editor for Fortnite

Secondary Educators: The application for Epic’s ONLINE Summer Epic Educator Accelerator is now open!

This is a free online intensive Professional Development opportunity. 5 full days of immersion in Unreal Engine and the Epic Ecosystem.

Apply now. Spots are limited for each cohort. August 19-23

There’s still time to register for the Epic Secondary Educator summit taking place online this Saturday 24 February from 4pm-9.30pm (GMT). A diverse group of educators will share the great work they’re doing integrating interactive 3D technology into their learning spaces.

Read more and find out how to register here - Epic Secondary Educator Summit- Feb 2024 | Tutorial

Anyone who missed the session last week and wants to know how to use the software, see the recording here: https://youtu.be/-xOk--_j2d0

There are 10 days left to enter the Rube Goldberg 10-pin challenge! Find out more here
https://www.rubegoldberg.org/rube-goldberg-contests/the-rube-goldbergunreal-engine-10-pin-challenge/
If you’re interested but this time scale is too short, sign up to our next event and learn how to use the software to enter next year

We do have an offline installer option for Unreal Engine which may please the IT team as it doesn’t require students to login and I don’t believe it requires access to the command line.

https://forms.unrealengine.com/s/edu-offline-request

Best,
Steve

Hi all,
Any tips on getting Unreal Engine installed on a school network? After months of trying my IT team said that they couldn’t install Unity (as it needed access to the cmd line.)
Is Unreal Engine “safer”?
(Sorry for silly question but I don’t want to spend a lot of time learning a platform that we can’t use!)
Thanks

Count me in. Need to address this area.