What's on the Second Life campus of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke?
Twelve large, adjacent venues form the campus of UNCP in Second Life. The architecture of the campus is a pair of stacks of sky platforms side-by-side in the Dotoorak region of the SL mainland near the ocean. Each platform is an ample 100m x 50m flat rectangle.
The surrounding area in Dotoorak and nearby regions is much like a typical college town with residences, small shops and fields with rolling hills. The Second Life ocean is east of campus with the closest approach at Stone's Harbor, which has a close affiliation with UNCP.
The original five levels are referred to as the Main Campus, while the five levels added recently form the West Annex. On the other side of the Main Campus is the East Annex, which has the Newbie Convenience Center at ground level near the campus Welcome Center and also the Maintenance Shop in the sky at about the altitude of a level 2 platform. The Newbie Convenience Center is a place where anyone can transfer clothes or other necessities to their inventory, and change clothes in private. It's yard also functions as a sandbox.
Level 0 is ground level and the level numbers in each stack go up from there to level 4, which is at the highest altitude in use by UNCP at this time. Levels 5 and 6 are available, but not constructed.
Level 0 = 50m, on the ground, just above sea level
Level 1 = 250m
Level 2 = 325m
Level 3 = 400m
Level 4 = 475m
Room for future expansion in each stack if needed:
Level 5 = 550m
Level 6 = 625m
A search for "UNCP" in the SL Search engine in-world will turn up the land profile with a teleport button. The list below is more precise in locating a dozen places in particular on campus.
UNCP Campus Directory
MAIN CAMPUS
Level 0:
UNCP Welcome Center
Level 1:
Classroom Building
Outdoor Seminar
Braves Pond
Level 2:
Classroom Building
Computer Lab
Email Center
Outdoor Classroom
Media Center
Admissions Information
Picnic Area
New Resident Tips
Braves Spirit Shoppe (free UNCP t-shirts and other paraphernalia)
Level 3:
Library
Level 4:
Art Gallery
Braves Park
Braves Gridiron
Braves Scoreboard
WEST ANNEX
Level 0:
Student Union Building
Arts & Sciences Building
Biology
Geography
Meteorology
Guides for New Residents
Level 1:
Mass Communication
Journalism Laboratory
Level 2:
Snowport
Environmental Classroom
Level 3:
Science Annex
Astronomy Hall
Astrophysics
Planetary Geology
Space Science
Level 4:
Wheat Fields (Interdisciplinary Art and Agriculture)
The Barn - Recreation Center (available for entertainment bookings)
EAST ANNEX
Newbie Convenience Center (ground level)
Authorized Personnel Only:
Maintenance Shop (approximately level 2 altitude)
Here's a direct Web link to the campus in Second Life: UNCP in SL
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