At Laurus International School of Science, students are encouraged to learn and think independently. In Minecraft club, students are encouraged to choose their own learning path, by selecting their own objectives in order to achieve badges. Each badge has specific criteria that involves demonstrating skills and knowledge of Minecraft.

Some of these badges are specific to educational ideas, such as using Minecraft's chemistry elements, or building logic gates with the game's redstone functionality. Some badges are aimed at the gameplay element of Minecraft, where students develop critical thinking skills, creativity and computational thinking.

Each session, the students decide which badge they want to work towards, and the teacher provides additional support if needed. When a student feels like they have achieved all the criteria for a certain badge, they present their work to the teacher, who will check to see that all the requirements have been met and award the badge if successful.

Each student has their own achievement page, which lists all the badges they have obtained. Students can choose any of the (currently) nine badges to aim for, but they can only try for the more advanced levels once they have completed the one before it.

For example, there are six levels to achieve as a Farmer. Three are at Emerald level, and then three at Diamond level. Students have to complete each challenge in order, so to go for Diamond level one, they need to have achieved Emerald level three. However, they can choose to do all of the Farmer challenges before ever even trying to do Programmer level one.