Our newest AI Quest: mapping the human brain
Google Research and the Stanford Accelerator for Learning release "Polar Peaks", the third AI Quests title, in which students aged 11 to 14 map brain neurons while practicing data cleaning and model testing. The game stresses human oversight of AI and critical thinking; Google also offers teacher training modules.
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Google Research and the Stanford Accelerator for Learning created AI Quests, a series that teaches students aged 11 to 14 how AI works and how to use it responsibly, casting them as Google researchers tackling large societal challenges. The series has passed 400,000 completed quests and is localized into 10 languages. Polar Peaks is the third quest, following ones on flood forecasting and eye disease detection.
This time the subject is neuroscience and connectomics, the mapping of neural networks. Guided by in-game mentors, students scan and map neurons to help a game character with a memory problem, cleaning data and testing models, and learn that AI needs careful human oversight. Google is also releasing teacher training modules: those for Quests 1 and 2 are available, and the Quest 3 module is due the following month. The series won a 2026 Webby Award and an ETIH Innovation Award, and Google says more quests will reach classrooms this school year.
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