By Priyanka Dwivedi
The 2019 Brain Bee competition which was held on April 6th at the University of Waterloo was the eleventh annual brain bee competition. The Brain Bee competition consists of 80 multiple choice questions in which all the answers are completely anonymous but only the top three winners get awarded cash prizes and the first place winner gets the opportunity to compete in the national brain bee competition. This year, Cameron Heights had the largest number of participants attend out of all the schools in the Waterloo Region. The Brain Bee doesn’t just consist of answering questions, but students have the opportunity to hold and look at real brain cadavers (if they choose to), they get to experiment and try out various electronic machines that are used for research by students at the university specifically the applied health science students. Dr. Robyn Ibey, a neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo spoke to us and told us that she took the initiative to keep the brain bee competition running as when she was in high school students weren’t exposed to neuroscience and that’s why she wants to continue the legacy and instill an interest for neuroscience in highschool students considering the health science. Overall, the the Brain Bee competition is a fun opportunity for highschool students to discover and perhaps fulfill their passion about the human brain and get a taste of the university-level setting before actually finalizing which university the individual wants to attend.
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