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...