As the Atlanta Chapter for the SFN has tried to expand its outreach efforts during Brain Awareness Week, we have found that volunteers are often intimidated by planning an appropriate lesson. This problem has been most difficult for the volunteers visiting middle-school classrooms. In order to help recruit volunteers to work with middle-school students, we set out to develop a curriculum that could be easily used by these volunteers with minimal preparation. To meet this need we developed The BrainGame, which is an interactive presentation that covers basic neuroscience topics appropriate for this age group. As the students work through The BrainGame, questions seem to be randomly selected from four categories: Structure & Function, When it Goes Wrong, Drugs, and Wild Card. These questions introduce basic neuroscience concepts such as Neuroanatomy, Chemical Neurotransmission, Pathophysiology, and Sensory Perception in the form of an animated and interactive game. The game includes movies, case studies and ...