iNeuron® is an iOS app, available for download on the App Store, that teaches introductory neuroscience concepts to high school students. Developed with the support of two grants from the National Institutes of Health, iNeuron facilitates small group collaboration as players solve neurological circuit building problems and engage with a host of other learn-by-doing games.

iNeuron was designed specifically as an instructional tool for classroom teachers. By delivering game challenges in the relevant context of the human nervous system, iNeuron helps teachers meaningfully engage their students in neuroscience, which leads to subject matter mastery, and better retention of difficult concepts. FORGE was first developed on this effort to enable educators to describe the lessons and instructional content in a way that could easily be adapted into the app software itself.

In a multi-classroom study with nearly 400 high-school students conducted by educational researchers from the University of Minnesota, iNeuron was shown to be more effective than state of the art neuroscience education practices. The full results of the evaluation are published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Science Education & Technology.