On March 28, 2009 high school students, grades 10-12, from across the Lower Mainland will meet to compete in the first Vancouver regional Brain Bee competition, an exciting and highly-challenging test of their knowledge of the brain and neuroscience. The event, hosted by the Brain Research Centre, UBC Faculty of Medicine, and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, will take place on the UBC Point Grey campus in the Life Sciences Centre.
The Brain Bee is styled after a traditional spelling bee, except that students answer questions about memory, sleep, intelligence, emotion, perception, stress, aging, brain-imaging, neurology, neurotransmitters, genetics, and brain disease. All questions and answers come from the Society for Neuroscience Brain Facts book.
The Vancouver Brain Bee is open to high school students in grades 10-12, and includes a written test, an oral test, an interactive panel of researchers, and prizes. Registration closes on March 6, 2009 and more information is available at www.brain.ubc.ca/brainbee.php or www.brainbee.ca (follow links to Local Bees and Vancouver).
The winner of the local Brain Bee wins a trip to McMaster University to compete against other regional winners in the CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee on May 30. The winner of that event goes on to compete with students from around the world including India, Australia, Egypt and the US, at the International Brain Bee in the summer.
The Brain Bee encourages students to be engaged with health sciences and to consider careers in this exciting and rewarding area. Judges for this event include the following internationally recognized researchers and professors of the Brain Research Centre at UBC and VCH Research Institute: Dr. Shernaz Bamji; Dr. Adele Diamond; Dr. Kurt Haas; Dr. Jane Roskams.
When:
March 28, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Where:
UBC Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall
What:
2009 Vancouver Brain Bee leading up to the International Brain Bee
Contact: Melissa Ashman
Brain Research Centre Communications
Tel: 604.827.3396
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