A group of Edinburgh neuroscientists and students organised the annual Edinburgh Brain Bee competition, which was held at the University of Edinburgh on 22 February 2020. The event was funded by the Principal's Teaching Award Scheme at the University of Edinburgh and also supported by...
South West Brain Bee 2020 – an absolute success! The South West Brain Bee regional competition took place on 8th of February in Kingdown school, Warminster. 27 students across the South West, Midlands and Wales competed for a place in the national competition demonstrating their hard...
Seventeen-year-old Yidou Weng, representing China, placed first in the 2019 International Brain Bee (IBB) World Championship, a neuroscience competition for teenagers. This year, a record twenty-eight national/regional champions from all six continents traveled to Daegu, Korea, to compete in the IBB World Championship, which took...
The 21st edition of the International Brain Bee (IBB) World Championship will take place September 19-23, 2019 in Daegu, South Korea, in conjunction with the 10th World Congress of the International Brain Research Organization. Twenty-eight competitors, each representing their respective nations, will contend for the title of World Champion...
The core of the International Brain Bee World Championship program is the five competition sections, which explore students' knowledge of both theory and practice, from research neuroscience to medical neurology. Expert neuroscientists will judge the competition at every level. All competition media will be presented...
About the International Brain Bee The international Brain Bee is a neuroscience competition for teenagers aged 14 to 19 that was founded in 1999. Currently, there are more than 60 nations engaged in the competition. About 50,000 students participate across all six continents every year, and...
(Berlin, July 8 2018) Eighteen-year-old Piotr Oleksy from Krakow (Poland) has won today (July 8) the international Brain Bee Competition at Europe’s biggest brain research conference in Berlin. Twenty five young finalists in the competition, and aged between 13 and 18 from 25 countries, took...
Neuroscience is the growing field of research and sciences. Undoubtedly, it is one of the most high growth industries in the future. Why? It influences our daily lives, health, the advancement of technology (including artificial intelligence, or AI), and the augmentation of our cognitive abilities (e.g.,...
Five major organizations dedicated to brain research and education have come together to support the formal establishment of the International Brain Bee organization (IBB), as a non-profit educational organization. The primary goal of the IBB is to motivate students to learn about the brain and to...
The International Brain Bee (IBB) is a neuroscience competition for teenagers. Its purpose is to motivate young men and women to learn about the human brain, and to inspire them to enter careers in the basic and clinical brain sciences. The world needs future clinicians...
I’m very excited about the opportunity I was given to mentor the UK National Brain Bee Champion, Emmanuela Obaro from North Birmingham Academy. Emmanuela will represent the UK at the International Brain Bee Competition, facing opponents from up to 60 different nations. This year’s international...
On the 10th of April, 23 school students from Scotland, Wales and England gathered to compete in the British Brain Bee 2018 neuroscience competition for a place to represent the UK in the International Brain Bee that will be held in Berlin, Germany on the...
London, UK – March 16, 2018 Three local British Brain Bee (registered charity number 1175560) volunteers attended a local secondary school in Streatham, London, for a brain anatomy-related activity. More than 30 students from the Thomas Bishop Grant School attended the after-school event, where volunteers gave...
FENS supports the mission of the International Brain Bee (IBB) to inspire school-age students to pursue careers in basic and clinical neuroscience. FENS supports the mission of the International Brain Bee (IBB) to inspire school-age students to pursue careers in basic and clinical neuroscience. National Brain Bee initiatives...
Brain Bee brings aspiring teenagers to the Sainbury Wellcome Centre Future neuroscientists, psychologists, neurologists and doctors from secondary schools in London and beyond came together to participate in the annual London Brain Bee championship on Saturday 17th March at the Sainsbury Wellcome Center (SWC) for...
For the first time ever, secondary school students from Aberdeen got a chance to show their knowledge and share their love for all things brainy! On the 21st of February 2018, students from Robert Gordon’s College and St Margaret’s School for Girls met at the Aberdeen...
For the first time, high school students from Lothian (Edinburgh) competed against each other on questions relating to the functionality of the brain. The regional Brain Bee Competition, which took place on the 24 th of February (Saturday) at the University of Edinburgh, encourages participants to...
Rogue Resolutions and British Brain Bee announces a partnership Today, Rogue Resolutions and the British Brain Bee announced a partnership to advance neuroscience education in secondary schools across the UK. The organisations will collaborate to raise awareness of brain sciences and a career in medicine and...
20 December 2017 Almost 60 students battled it out to be crowned top neuroscientist at this year’s Wales Brain Bee competition held at Cardiff University. After months of revision, participants from seven schools across South Wales came together to test their laboratory and written skills during the...
Professor Sir Colin Blakemore (left), one of Britain’s leading neuroscientists and director of the School of Advanced Study’s Centre for the Study of the Senses (CenSes), has been appointed patron of the British Brain Bee, a grassroots educational initiative which aims to promote the neurosciences...
The International Brain Bee (IBB) is the one and only neuroscience competition for 14-18 year-old students around the world. Currently, about 50,000 students from more than 50 nations participate each year, with more than 600 neuroscientists involved in organizing and judging. Back in July, I...
“It changed the way I view the world and myself.” Jiantao Shen Australia “My Brain Bee experience was one of the defining experiences of my high school career. It helped my self-confidence to grow enormously. It was a fantastic academic challenge and sparked an interest in neuroscience, allowed...
Future neuroscientists from around the world met in Washington, DC this week to compete in the nineteenth World Brain Bee Championship, with the 2017 World Brain Bee Champion announced as Sojas Wagle, a sophomore from Har-Ber High School in Arkansas, USA. The Brain Bee is a...
As the world is becoming increasingly complex, STEM subjects are becoming more critical for the UK's future success. Young people should be equipped with the skills that enable them to solve difficult problems, to gather and evaluate evidence, to make sense of information and come...
I BECAME INTERESTED IN NEUROSCIENCE, AND IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES IN PARTICULAR, WHILE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AS A RESULT OF MY GRANDMOTHER’S STRUGGLE WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. IN THE BEGINNING, I THOUGHT HER FORGETFULNESS WAS JUST “GRANNY BEING GRANNY.” OVER TIME, IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THERE WAS...
On Friday 12 June 2015, 47 high school students congregated at University College, London to take part in the inaugural English Brain Bee, a neuroscience quiz-style competition. The majority of participants were Year 9 students from the nearby Maria Fidelis Catholic School; the rest were...