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p>Students at the University of Pennsylvania are recreating their campus on "Minecraft" after COVID-19 finished their course early. Events like graduations and weddings have been moved online to "Minecraft," "Animal Crossing," and other online games since the coronavirus spread all over the world. The majority of US colleges have moved to distance learning for the rest of the semester For more stories, visit Business Insider's homepage. Although the University of Pennsylvania's academic year is finished, some students aren't ready for departure.

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p>A group of UPenn students created a Minecraft server and coordinated re-creating the campus in the last two weeks of March. They've been in contact with Brown University and Columbia University students who are working on similar projects and discussed the possibility of creating similar challenges for schools.

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p>Microsoft bought the block-building game "Minecraft" in 2014 for $2.5billion. It has been one of the most played games on the planet for the past 10 years. It had 112 million active players each month as of September. This number has risen to 145 million.

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p>Colleges and universities across the US have sent students home and switched to remote learning for the remainder of the semester. Some schools changed their policies after students were diagnosed with COVID-19, a virus that causes coronavirus. Others did it before the student arrived. Colleges also weighed in on the dangers of bringing students back from spring break, having been on the road all over the world.

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p>Although they are unable to be present on campus, Penn students recreated the campus in detail. https://soundzpromising.com/ This process is still in progress. You can see their amazing work here.

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