Brain Bee Competition for High School Students Set for Feb. 4
The University of Scranton will host the 18th annual Northeast PA Brain Bee for high school students in grades 9 through 12 on Saturday, Feb. 4. The competition begins at 1 p.m. in the Loyola Science Center on the University’s campus.
The competition encourages high school students to study the brain and how it relates to intelligence, memory, emotions, sensations, movements, stress, aging, sleep and brain disorders. All questions for the competition will be drawn from “Brain Facts,” a book about the brain and nervous system published by the Society for Neuroscience.
In previous years students competing represented schools from throughout Northeast Pennsylvania, including, Abington Heights High School, Lackawanna Trail High School, MMI Preparatory School, Parkland High School, Pittston Area High School, Pocono Mountain East High School, Riverside Junior/Senior High School, Wallenpaupack Area High School, Western Wayne High School, Wyoming Area High School and Valley View High School, among others.
Sponsored by the Neuroscience Program at the University and the Scranton Neuroscience Society, the Brain Bee is offered free of charge, however, registration is required to participate. The registration deadline is Wednesday, Feb. 1.
Snow date for the Brain Bee is Saturday, Feb. 11.
For more information or to register online, visit https://sites.google.com/site/nepabrainbee/ or contact Robert Waldeck, Ph.D., program director and associate professor of biology, at 570-941-4324 or robert.waldeck@scranton.edu.