Play to learn the secrets of life. For RNA coders

Eterna is a project born from the collaboration of two universities; the Carnegie Mellon University and the Stanford University. Very interesting is the fact that online resources of players (crowdsources) are used to assign computational design challenges of RNA and predictive structures to players. Playing to learn and to collaborate on global projects....what excitement guys! What is Eterna and above all how can this game be used for educational purposes? Eterna is a game that teaches the basics of RNA code composition to create molecular structures. It easily teaches what the bases are, the building blocks of life and organic molecules that we can create by solving puzzles and assigned tasks. A simple tutorial teaches us what the bonds are, strong and weak. What are we talking about? The main subject is RNA. Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a molecule present in all living organisms. Like DNA (nominally more famous) RNA consists of a chain of simple building blocks called nucleotides. With these 4 building blocks that for convenience we assign different colors (yellow, red, green and blue) we can create the bases of life starting from proteins up to complex codes. Has someone used these building blocks to create complex codes like the one present in your DNA? Let's leave these questions and possible answers to philosophers and another venue. Here is the presentation video of ETERNA https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/V2qtNyJ3KQg?origin=http://localhost But let's get back to ETERNA and see if we can learn and even collaborate with the scientific community while having fun. Here is the presentation of the project and the game from a computer science point of view. How to start playing and start understanding how to collaborate with this project? Connect to https://eternagame.org/home/ register and access to start the tutorial. Contact me to understand what results the students of my high school achieve and to better understand what you need to do to solve highly challenging problems. Have fun https://eternagame.org/home/ PS the first challenge that the high school students overcome is one of a rank of about 50000