The CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee is inspiring the next generation of neuroscientists
High school students from across Canada will converge at McMaster University on Saturday, May 25th, 2019, to compete in the 12th Annual CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee championship.
The students, all winners of their regional competitions, will be tested on their knowledge of neuroscience and their skills at patient diagnosis and neuroanatomy. Topics will cover memory, sleep, intelligence, emotion, perception, stress, aging, brain-imaging, neurology, neurotransmitters, genetics and brain disease.
Regional Brain Bee competitions took place earlier this year in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, London, Waterloo, Guelph, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
“Each year we anticipate with great excitement the arrival of these outstanding high school students from across Canada, who have prepared so well for the challenges of this competition. The competition inspires the next generation of neuroscientists,” says Dr. Judith Shedden, professor in McMaster’s Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour and chair of the CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee Committee.
The CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee is supported nationally by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
“We are honoured to once again support this competition, which allows for bright young students in Canada to gather and demonstrate their knowledge of the brain,” says Dr. Samuel Weiss, Scientific Director of CIHR’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction. “It is important to stimulate interest and passion for neuroscience among talented students who represent the future in this field.”
Winners will receive trophies and scholarship awards of $1,500, $1,000 and $500. The first-place winner will win an internship in a neuroscience laboratory and will represent Canada at the International Brain Bee in September 2019 in Daegu, South Korea.
More information can be found at http://www.brainbee.ca.
McMaster University, one of four Canadian universities listed among the Top 100 universities in the world, is renowned for its innovation in both learning and discovery. It has a student population of 23,000, and more than 156,000 alumni in 140 countries. www.mcmaster.ca
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