Guides, Battle Prompts & Rubrics, field notebooks, and judging materials for the 2026–27 pilot, grouped by who uses them.
These materials are for participating County Offices of Education, schools, and educators. They may not be redistributed or sold.
How Battle of the Counties works: who can participate, the four required parts, the Virtual Qualifier submission, judging, and common questions.
An overview of the learning experience for students and educators, from the California State Capitol through the county pathways.
How Schools Reinventing Counties can support learning aligned with California's State Seal of Civic Engagement. For schools, districts, and county offices of education.
Each challenge has its own prompt and rubric for each division. Teams use the one that matches their challenge and division.
Student notebooks to take through the experience, one per division.
The Orange County Minecraft Education world: six communities, six real-world challenges, and how to run them.
The Catalina Island Minecraft Education world, the open pathway for students whose county isn't in the experience yet.
An optional rubric for classroom extension work. It is not scored in Battle of the Counties.
A common framework for participating county offices of education to launch and support Battle of the Counties locally.
Judging principles, the recommended review process, and the official four-criteria rubric.