Rockcliffe University Consortium is an online nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing education, research, and service through immersive and accessible technologies. Rockcliffe supports educators, learners, and innovators through workshops, forums, conferences, and community spaces that explore the effective use of virtual environments for teaching, collaboration, and discovery.
Website: urockcliffe.com

Exhibit Location: Rockcliffe University Consortium, Badland Wilds

Whole Brain Health is a nonprofit organization focused on helping people build healthier brains through science-based programs, coaching, and community activities. Its work emphasizes sustainable behavior change, brain fitness, and healthy aging, with both virtual and in-person offerings designed to make brain health practical, engaging, and accessible.
Website: www.agelessmindproject.org

Exhibit Location: Whole Brain Health, Floating Meadows

Lead Builder: Pionia Destiny / Doris Molero
Affiliation: VWMOOC

This exhibit highlights the work of VWMOOC25 and invites participants to engage with the upcoming VWMOOC26. It showcases how communities of educators, researchers, and creators connect through immersive platforms like Second Life, OpenSim, and more. The exhibit presents key sessions, presenter bios, screenshots, and videos from VWMOOC25, along with resources such as session slides, links, and recordings. Visitors can learn how to participate, contribute, or present in VWMOOC26. The space includes interactive elements and notecards with essential information for prospective participants and presenters. Visit to discover how virtual worlds are shaping education and collaborative practice.
Website: integrating-technology.org

Exhibit Location: VWMOOC, Badland Wilds

Lead Builder: Toriara Fairelander
Co-builder: Zinnia Zauber
Co-builder: Buffy Beale
Co-builder: Fern Fairelander
Affiliation: NonProfit Commons sponsored by AvaCon, Inc.

A play on words of the theme ‘Insights’, Nonprofit Commons is both in sight and insightful. At a time when many nonprofits and educational organisations are facing funding cuts, yet are needed more than ever, the Nonprofit Commons (NPC) virtual community provides a vital, visible, support and advocacy network that has also provided the words of insight into NPC in the exhibit. The insightfulness of NPC, as showcased by the animal Guardians of Wisdom, assists not only the organisations within it but also many other people, providing education about the latest innovations in technology and how to be visible in a fast-changing social media environment.
Website: nonprofitcommons.avacon.org

Exhibit Location: NonProfit Commons, Badland Wilds

Lead Builder: Kreatya Shannon / Shannon Broden
Affiliation: Post Graduate

What ways can knowledge management be incorporated into virtual worlds to encourage collaboration and communication? This exhibit is presented by Shannon Broden (Kreatya Shannon in virtual worlds), MLIS, San Jose State University and MA, Communications, California State University, Fullerton. The exhibit includes looking at the research of others and showcasing Shannon/Kreatya’s work in Second Life with Knowledge Management.
Website: www.kreatyashannon.com

Exhibit Location: Shannon Broden/Kreatya Shannon, Desert Hinterlands

Lead Builder: Rosie Neiro / Rosie Vojtek
Co-builder: BJ Gearbox
Affiliation: Virtual Education Journal, Edovation

The Virtual Education Journal (VEJ) was founded in 2011 and is Edovation’s flagship publication for digital and virtual learning. The purpose of VEJ is to: share the work that educators are doing in digital and virtual environments; disseminate educational and technological research, tools, and best practices; document and preserve the culture, social relations, digital work, environments, and digital artifacts; encourage and promote the work of educators and their students to effectively and seamlessly utilize digital tools; and celebrate the lives, accomplishments and preserve the learning and legacies of educational leaders. Stop by and explore the VEJ exhibit and learn how you can get your FREE copy and become a VEJ author.
Website: virtualeducationjournal.com

Exhibit Location: VEJ, Desert Hinterlands

Lead Builder: Johannes Huntsman
Co-builder: Tempest Rosca

Affiliation: None

Unfolding Insight is a curated art exhibition that examines how understanding emerges gradually within virtual and digitally mediated learning environments. Rather than emphasizing tools, platforms, or technical innovation, the exhibition focuses on the human experience of perception, reflection, and transformation as learning unfolds over time. The artworks invite viewers to look beyond surface interactions and consider the deeper processes through which insight is formed.

Exhibit Location: Unfolding Insight, Floating Meadows

Lead Builder: Buffy Beale
Affiliation: NonProfit Commons

Imagination gone wild in our fun exhibit which features our famous “JoinMeJoinUs Avatar Obstacle Course” for a challenge (trophy to the finishers!) and all the information you need to join our grassroots movement to unite people who want to change the world. Imagine the power! Grab your badge and join us!
Website: joinmejoinus.org #joinmejoinus #phaseone #firstweconnect

Exhibit Location: JoinMeJoinUs, Jungle Habitat

Lead Builder: Brian Aviator / Brian Perry
Co-builder: Kevin Cerulean
Affiliation: Virtual Museum Team

The Virtual Museum Team shares immersive educational experiences from multiple platforms, including Second Life™, Open Simulator, and Roblox™. The current collection features the Museum of Computing History, documenting the milestones of technology; the Museum of Telecommunications, exploring the evolution of human connection; the LGBTQ History Museum, dedicated to equality and culture; and whimsical destinations like the Brevin Cat Museum and Bay City Moleseum. Through these dynamic spaces, the team transforms learning into an adventure, offering engaging 3D recreations and archives for educators, enthusiasts, and lifelong learners.
Website: www.vmuseum.org

Exhibit Location: Virtual Museum Team, Rainbow Basin

Lead Builder: Lorelei Lavender
Co-builder: Earth Emerald
Co-builder: Ilsa Gutrune
Affiliation: Indivisible & Book Island

“The Indivisible Project is a U.S. registered 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Our mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat authoritarianism, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies.

Indivisible SL organizes as one of those “local INDIVISIBLE groups. Members collaborate ideas, skills and perspectives. We learn, act and support one another in the shared work of participating in public life: democracy, rights, responsibilities, peaceful civic actions, and the wellbeing of the broader community. This is what democracy looks like.
Website: indivisible.org

Exhibit Location: INDIVISIBLE SL, Tundra Expanse

Lead Builder: Bluebarker Lowtide
Affiliation: VBCPS

A fun showcase of artifacts made by students to promote the Studio Model. Come see photos and short video clips of what students at the high school level are doing to create portfolio ready items and preparing real world skills for life after high school. Equally important, it gives students something increasingly rare in school: the experience of finishing something meaningful and sharing it publicly. This shift is not a rejection of creativity or engagement — it is an evolution toward purpose-driven learning. Gamification served an important role during a different moment. The studio model responds to the present moment by grounding engineering education in authenticity, responsibility, and real-world relevance.
Website: www.vbschools.com

Exhibit Location: STEM Explorations in Studio Environments, Tundra Expanse

Lead Builder: Beth Ghostraven
Affiliation: Ghostraven Professional Attire

This cozy shop includes free clothing for women and men, as well as notecards and posters describing how to tailor your avatar appearance to look like the professional you are. Ghostraven Professional Attire (GPA) focuses on modest BOM / system and flexi prim clothing for the Second Life human avatar. This clothing may be worn on mesh avatars with BoM (Bakes On Mesh) capability. We can help you match your avatar self with the professional image that you wish to convey.
Website: bethghostraven.com

Exhibit Location: Avatar Appearance with GPA, Rainbow Basin

Lead Builder: Elli Pinion / Becky Adams
Co-builder: Valibrarian Gregg
Affiliation: VWEC

VWEC is dedicated to working with innovative educators and students and what they deal with every day. Insights invite us to focus on the future of technology in education, and the importance of bringing educators and communities together to address challenges and celebrate the success. Our experience informs us and allow us to create new opportunities to adapt and improve. We celebrate the opportunity to work together with VWBPE and the amazing problem solvers, creative planners and true innovators that make up the educational community in Virtual Worlds.
Website: www.vweconsortium.org

Exhibit Location: Bringing Metaverse Educators Together, Jungle Habitat

Lead Builder: DeeDeeBeaker
Co-builder: Bob-e
Affiliation: University of New Mexico

Utilizing a best practices approach we will look at how AI and Critical Thinking influence the Learning Environment and how these two tools can enhance or potentially limit learning in Health Sciences by using various educational exercises. The exhibit will include links to research that discusses various advantages and disadvantages of the utilization of AI in certain learning environments.
Website: unm.edu

Exhibit Location: AI and Critical Thinking insights in Learning, Rainbow Basin

Lead Builder: amvans lapis / Marie Vans
Co-builder: Bethanythevirtualversion
Co-builder: Mnemosyne Seminario
Affiliation: VCARA – San Jose State University

Snarky & Sass’s Nutty Exhibit brings VCARA’s research to VWBPE 2026 through two squirrel avatars guiding visitors into the VR Exploder’s Club’s video analysis work. The exhibit explores how immersive-world recordings are “exploded to reveal hidden social, cultural, and platform dynamics. It draws parallels between disappearing digital archives and the history of burning libraries and banned books, highlighting censorship, algorithmic silence, and the fragility of virtual knowledge. Playful yet pointed, Snarky and Sass champion community archiving as resistance and preservation as advocacy.
Website: ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu

Exhibit Location: VCARA-SJSU, Canopy Point

Lead Builder: Rhiannon Chatnoir / Joyce Bettencourt
Co-builder: Frans Charming
Co-builder: Marcus Llewellyn
Co-builder: James Lloud
Affiliation: AvaCon Inc

AvaCon, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the growth, enhancement, and development of the metaverse, virtual worlds, augmented reality, and 3D immersive and virtual spaces. Through the lens of VWBPE’s theme we will re-envision our work with communities throughout the Metaverse, exploring new immersive technologies and platforms and sharing resources on digital media tools, streaming, educational content, and info with those exploring the VWBPE exhibits.
Website: avacon.org

Exhibit Location: Avacon Inc, Desert Hinterlands

Lead Builder: Letty Luckstone / Leticia De Leon
Affiliation: The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Step into a story brought to life through the immersive experience of a game. At the heart of this exhibit stands a tree—a symbol of branching narratives and the dynamic, unfolding nature of interactive storytelling. Follow the organic paths of the story, where each choice shapes the journey, blurring the line between player and character. This exhibit invites you to engage with storytelling as more than just an observer. It is both a game and a learning experience, revealing how stories and gameplay intertwine to create deeper engagement. Discover how interactivity transforms narrative into a living experience.
Website: www.utrgv.edu

Exhibit Location: The Tree Is Life: Games, Stories, Learning, Desert Hinterlands