Annual CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee | McMaster University

Congratulations to everyone -- the 2012 McMaster Brain Bee was a great success: Our Ninth Annual Brain Bee!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

We had 40 students competing from high schools across the Hamilton-Halton-Niagara region.
Click here for more photos of the event!

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Iroquois Ridge High School cleaned up this year, winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Awesome work -- congratulations!!! Our three top place winners are shown below, from left to right: Manjot Sangha (1st place), Tina Yuan (3rd place), and Alicia Rajwani (2nd place). Congratulations to Manjot, who will be representing us at the 5th Annual CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee, held at McMaster on May 26, 2012.

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Here is the 2012 Brain Bee flyer. On February 21st, our visitors arrived at 12:30 pm. By car, park in Lot I (SE corner of campus near Main and Cootes; see map) and walk east to the Psychology Building (building 34 on the map): http://www.mcmaster.ca/welcome/campusmap.cfm. There will be someone in the lobby of the Psychology Building to show you where to go.

It is not too early to start thinking about preparing for the
2013 McMaster Brain Bee

High school students in the Hamilton-Halton and surrounding area from grades 9 through 12 are welcome to compete! Students will demonstrate their knowledge about the brain and neuroscience, including fascinating topics involving intelligence, memory, emotions, sensations, movement, stress, aging, sleep, addiction, and more. Participating is a valuable experience that you can add to your resume -- not to mention the possibility of winning prizes and fame!

Please note this very important change for the 2013 McMaster Brain Bee: All questions/answers for the 2013 brain bee will come from Neuroscience: Science of the Brain.

Please note that there are nearby local brain bee competitions held in Waterloo, Guelph, and Toronto. Students may not compete in more than one local brain bee competition each year, and must at the location that is closest geographically to their high school.

Prizes

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners receive a trophy plaque engraved with their names to hang on their wall. There will be other 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes -- and every participant will receive a Certificate of Participation from the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University. In addition the 1st place winner will receive: A beautiful traveling trophy plaque engraved with the winner's name, school, and year to be displayed in the trophy case at their school for a year.

The 1st place winner of the local McMaster Brain Bee will represent Hamilton at the Fifth Annual CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee in May 2012, competing for the right to be called the BEST BRAIN in Canada. Graduate students from our department will help the winner prepare for the national event. Additional exciting prizes are awarded at the national competition each year. The 2012 CIHR Canadian Brain Bee champion will win a trip for two to represent Canada at the International Brain Bee competition, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, the week of July 22nd, 2012.

How to Prepare for the 2013 McMaster Brain Bee

Students can start studying immediately! Important information for the 2013 McMaster Brain Bee: Although the Brain Facts book will continue to be an excellent study aid, 2012 was the last year that the questions came directly from Brain Facts. To prepare for the 2013 McMaster Brain Bee competition, students should study Neuroscience: Science of the Brain. All questions/answers for the 2013 McMaster Brain Bee will come from this book.

THE 2012 ninth annual MCMASTER BRAIN BEE waS SPONSORED BY

Winners of the Eighth Annual McMaster Brain Bee
February 23, 2011

Dr. Joe Kim

Co-organizer

Sophie Geffros

Holy Trinity

Second place!

Jason Fan

Westdale

FIRST place!

Jessica Blackwood

Hillfield Strathallan

Third Place!

Group Picture of our 2011 Competitors

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Jason Fan, the winner of the 2011 McMaster Brain Bee, will represent us at the Fourth Annual CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee (CCNBB) on May 28, 2010. Big cash prizes! Trophies! Recognition! Stuff to add to your resume! Competitors from all over Canada will come to compete for the National title. Check out the CCNBB website for some great highlights of the National competition: http://brainbee.ca.

The winner of the CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee will represent Canada at the International Brain Bee held this year in Italy! Competitors from countries all over the world will compete for the International title and prizes! More cash prizes! More trophies! More fame!

Here is the 2011 Brain Bee flyer

We would love to see you at our 2012 competition! Please consider joining us!

The Seventh Annual McMaster Brain Bee

February 18, 2010

First Place: Maria Seraj, from Bishop Ryan High School

Second Place: Shawna Thompson, from Highland Secondary School

Third Place: Samiksha Kaul, from Westmount Secondary School

Here are our top 5 finalists!

From left to right:
Fifth: Jessica Blackwood, from Hillfield Strathallan
Fourth: Wesley Stevens, from Westmount Secondary School
Third: Samiksha Kaul, from Westmount Secondary School
Second: Shawna Thompson, from Highland Secondary School
First: Maria Seraj, from Bishop Ryan High School

Writing the exam

Competitors fielding questions

The Annual McMaster Brain Bee would not be possible without the help of our volunteers, who are staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students from PNB and MiNDS). Thank You! Without you, the brain bee would not happen!

The local McMaster Brain Bee is sponsored by

Check out more previous McMaster Brain Bee Competitions!

Would you like to learn more about the Brain Bee?

contact Dr. Judith M Shedden at McMaster University by phone or email:
905-525-9140 x24345
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