iThrive Games and the minds behind the Situation Room Experience in Washington, D.C. envisioned and created iThrive Sim. The in-person and virtual classroom-optimized tool brought forth a new digital space for teen collaborative learning and play in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to reach classrooms and teens across the country. In 2023, when iThrive Games was named a 2022-2023 winner of the Learning Engineering Tools Competition, iThrive Sim received a $100,000 Growth Phase award in the Transforming Assessment track. The award enables the iThrive team to expand their proprietary tool with new ways to measure and assess the teen social and emotional learning fostered on the platform through play.

iThrive Sim leverages the evocative power of tech-enabled play to power single player and multiplayer simulation games that scaffold learning with interactive opportunities for self-regulation, peer connection, and real-world application. On the back-end, iThrive Sim's dynamic authoring tool and content management system enables the creation of content-rich games customized to fit the needs of each game's audience (i.e., reading level, preferred learning modality, language preferences, etc.). On the front-end, iThrive Sim's synchronous and asynchronous information delivery mechanisms present players with unique stressors and individualized information they evaluate and use to make real-time decisions.