Why Making Synapses
Every skill you practice builds a synapse.
What a synapse is
A synapse is the junction where one brain cell passes a signal to the next. Your brain has trillions of them, and they are where learning lives: every skill you practice builds new synapses and strengthens the ones you use, until the path is fast and sure.
Why we chose the name
Knowledge that sticks is knowledge you have done with your own hands. Reading tells you what to do; practice is what builds the connections. Making Synapses is built so every minute is spent learning by applying knowledge: you do the real steps, in the right order, and each step leaves a stronger synapse behind.
Making Synapses started as a project to turn all knowledge into practice, bring it to new generations on the planet and help humankind face the future, which is already here.
Bringing Knowledge to Mankind
A few steps away from becoming a multiplanetary species, knowledge is finally within reach of everyone, everywhere. Our mission is to open that door for all humankind, this time applied and fun, so every new generation learns by doing.
Where it starts
Making Synapses opens with Medicine: OSCE-style clinical stations with thousands of carefully selected scenarios, personalized for each disease, scored step by step with a checklist. Every other trade of the city follows, district by district: see all districts.
Questions
What is Making Synapses?
Making Synapses started as a project to turn all knowledge into practice, bring it to new generations on the planet and help humankind face the future, which is already here. Its motto is Bringing Knowledge to Mankind. It opens with Medicine at makingsynapses.com/medical.
Why is it called Making Synapses?
A synapse is the junction where one brain cell passes a signal to the next. Every time you practice a skill, your brain builds new synapses and strengthens the ones you use. Making Synapses is built so every minute is spent learning by doing, which is exactly how those connections grow.
What is a synapse?
A synapse is the tiny gap where a nerve cell sends a signal to another cell. Learning and memory depend on synapses forming and getting stronger with use.
What does Bringing Knowledge to Mankind mean?
It is the mission of Making Synapses: open the door to the knowledge of humankind for everyone, this time applied and fun, so every new generation learns by doing.
What can I practice on Making Synapses today?
Medicine: OSCE-style clinical stations with thousands of carefully selected scenarios, personalized for each disease, scored step by step with a checklist.
Why are the patients made of cubes?
Blocky was designed to make learning feel like play, and to be compatible with any device. Simple on purpose, it allows users to focus on learning in an educational way how to follow processes and understand them.