The 48-hour Games for Change Neuron Challenge begins now!!! Let’s see how many complete and fully connected neurons we can reconstruct over the next couple days. Big things to look out for: faint signals and disconnected areas. You may notice that there is a little guide on the side of the challenge indicating whether it is the optimal time to be tracing or connecting. You will receive 2x points for tracing during the “trace stage” and for connecting during the “connect stage”, however you can do any activity during any stage.

Thank you to our community of players who have helped us put Mozak on the map. And welcome to our new players!

On June 28th, Mozak?s principal investigator Zoran Popovi? will be speaking at the Games for Change Festival in New York City. He will be sharing the incredible work this community has accomplished so far and what our goals for the upcoming year will be. To showcase Mozak’s community-accelerating reconstruction speed, we are launching a Games for Change Reconstruction Challenge. How many neurons can we reconstruct over the 2 days of the festival? Can we complete more than one full neuron per day? We?ll find out soon! During the Challenge, scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and our team will be providing expert feedback on partial reconstructions every 15 minutes to enhance collaboration and skill acquisition of both incoming and long-time players. We will begin the challenge at 9am EST on Thursday, June 28th and conclude 48 hours later on June 30th. Happy tracing, everyone!

Hi players, we have updated our forums located here. We hope this will make it easier to post bug reports and questions, as well as seeing when a member of our team posts a response.

Note that you will need to verify your email to view and post to the forums. After you log in, you can click on your name near the top left corner and then ‘Edit my account’ to resend the verification email if you didn’t receive one. Also double check your spam folder.

There will be a brief downtime of the Mozak site tomorrow morning at 9:30am PST as we push out some updates. Thanks, as always, for all your contributions!