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The International Brain Bee CompetitionThe International Brain Bee Competition (IBB) is a three-tiered question and answer competition that tests the
neuroscience knowledge of high school students. Young men and women from all over the world compete to determine who has the "best brain" on such topics as intelligence, memory, emotions, stress, aging, sleep, and neurological disease. In order to be eligible to participate in the international competition, high school students must win in their respective local and national bees.
The local brain bees are the first qualifying round of the IBB competition. These are held in the year round, but most often occur in January or February (right before the international competition) at more than fifty sites across the world. These Local Brain Bee competitions are sponsored by organizations like colleges, museums, neuroscience associations, pharmaceutical companies and others. The winner from each local bee will be invited to his or her National Brain Bee later that year.
The National Brain Bees are the second qualifying round of the IBB competition. The national bees will be held in each participating country, and the winner from each country's bee will be invited to the International Brain Bee Championship.
The 2008 US National Brain Bee results are in!
2008 NBB Champion Elena Perry
After two days of grueling competition, only one high school competitor is left standing: the 2008 USA National Brain Bee Champion. Five students advanced to the finals on March 15, 2008 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. After six rounds of questioning, Joe Caputo of Scranton was eliminated. After eight, Shivani Bhatt of Minneapolis was gone. After eleven, Murrel Pereira of New York finally had to leave. The only two left were Elena Perry of Washington, DC and Yixiao Wang of New Jersey. They continued to fight it out for three more rounds, six more, nine more, then Yixiao faltered, leaving Elena Perry as the Champion. Elena comes from Richard Montgomery High School. She will represent the USA in the International Brain Bee championship in May at the Canadian Association of Neuroscience Convention. The Brain Bee is about such topics as memory, sensation, emotions, intellect, brain imaging, neuroscience research, and dysfunctions such as stroke, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, and autism. For more information visit www.internationalbrainbee.com. Media contact jraymond@umaryland.edu.
For a complete list of the students who competed in the 2008 US National Brain Bee, please click here. To see pictures of the top six finishers, please click here.
www.InternationalBrainBee.com
This year, the IBB coordinators are proud to present our very own homepage! We will be using this site in conjunction with our normal distribution lists to update our competitors and coordinators on a more frequent basis. We are very excited by the potential that this site has to make our competition even easier to enjoy than before and are constantly updating this page to keep you current with our newest information.
Since this site is a very new endeavor, we would love your input on how we can make it better for you. Feel free to e-mail our web-developer with any suggestions for improvement, as well as to bring any broken links or missing information to our attention. Please bookmark us and check back frequently - new information is added daily!
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