North Carolina student to build first SparkNC VR learning unit

French’s journey started in the Spark Lab at Lexington Senior High School, where students are encouraged to explore emerging technologies and to build ideas that have real-world applications. A high school student's vision of a virtual classroom is about to go far beyond the walls where it started. Lennox French, a student at Lexington Senior High School in North Carolina, has been chosen to develop and implement a virtual-reality learning unit that could soon be available to students across the state. The project is a first for SparkNC, making French the first student in the program’s history to create a unit for its statewide platform, states the school website report.From a student project to an idea for the whole stateFrench’s journey started in the Spark Lab at Lexington Senior High School, where students are encouraged to explore emerging technologies and to build ideas that have real-world applications. French created a first version of a virtual-reality Spark Lab last year. His project investigated how immersive digital environments could offer new avenues for students to learn, collaborate and explore. Now the concept is in a position to reach a much larger audience, rathe...