An interactive educational game “Flight Across the Atlantic” featuring the legendary flight of Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Gir?nas was announced as one of the winners in the global digital innovation competition World Summit Awards (WSA). The product was created by the team of innovators from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and Vytautas the Great War Museum. 

 

 

According to the co-authors of the winning Lithuanian innovation, KTU scientists Andrius Paulauskas and Tomas Blažauskas, a diverse team was working on the interactive educational game: the historians and curators of Vytautas the Great War Museum were creating the historical content, and the KTU Informatics Faculty teachers and students were programming the solution.

 

“We are proud to engage our students into such important projects, and even more so – to see that their endeavours are recognised on the global level. I believe this motivates the students a great deal and makes them eager to reach for even more ambitious goals and results”, KTU representatives say.

 

“Flight Across the Atlantic” is an interactive educational game about two Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Gir?nas who in 1933 decided to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a plane called “Lituanica”. Starting from New York, after successfully flying 6,411 km (4,043 miles) “Lituanica” crashed due to undetermined circumstances 650 km (404 miles) from its destination, Kaunas, Lithuania.

This story is featured in “Flight Across the Atlantic”: its players go through the stages of the preparation and the flight itself, gaining a new knowledge during the process.