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| USA Brain Bee Championship Announces Winners! |
03/21/2017
The Tenth Anniversary USA National Brain Bee Championship was held in Baltimore on March 17, 18 and 19, 2017. The Brain Bee is a neuroscience competition for teenagers. Winners from 51 Chapter competitions (Group photo and complete list are attached) in 30 states came to compete at the University of Maryland in Baltimore to test their knowledge of the human brain including such topics as intelligence, emotions, memory, sleep, vision, hearing, sensations, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, addictions and brain research.
The winner is Sojas Wagle from Arkansas (Photo with Dr. Myslinski is attached). Sojas will represent the United States at the World Brain Bee Championship held in conjunction with the Convention of the American Psychological Association in Washington, DC, August 3-6. Besides a monetary prize he was also given an 8-week internship in a neuroscience laboratory. A donation is also given to the brain disorder charity of the winner’s choice, which is the Alzheimer’s Association.
Second place went to Aarthi Vijayakumar of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Third place went to Amit Kannan of Indianapolis, Indiana (A photo of the top 3 and a ranking of the top 20 are attached).
Currently there are about 200 Brain Bee Chapters in about 40 countries in 6 continents. Dr. Norbert Myslinski (2016 International Science Educator of the Year) founded the International Brain Bee eighteen years ago and says “Its purpose is to motivate young students to learn about the human brain and inspire them to seek careers in the basic and clinical neurosciences to help treat and find cures for brain disorders. We build better brains to fight brain disorders.”
Media can contact Patricia Fanning at pfanning@umaryland.edu (work: 410-706-7946; cell: 443-615-5811; twitter@UMBPatricia) OR Norbert Myslinski at nmyslinski@umaryland.edu<
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