AK Regional Brain Bee
The 2024 Alaska Regional Brain Bee will take place on Saturday, March 30 from 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM in the ConocoPhillips Integrated Sciences Building.
The Brain Bee is a fun neuroscience competition for high school students. In addition to competing for prizes, participants will have the opportunity to dissect sheep brains, train live laboratory rats and learn how they are used in research, take a virtual tour of the human brain in the 香港六合彩资料 Planetarium & Visualization Theater, and look at real human brains. Lunch will be provided. Do not miss this great event!
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View the 2024 Brain Bee Schedule to see the amazing events in store for participants of the 2024 Alaska Regional Brain Bee.
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Our regional competition is one of over 200 similar events in more than 50 countries across 6 continents. The goal of all of these Brain Bees is to motivate high school students to learn about the brain, capture their imagination, and inspire them to pursue neuroscience careers in order to help treat and find cures for neurological and psychological disorders.
The winner of each Regional Bee is invited to attend the National Brain Bee competition,
and the winner of each National Brain Bee is invited to represent their nation in
the International Brain Bee World Championship. The World Championship is hosted by
a different country every year.
Brain Bees test one's knowledge of the human brain including such topics as intelligence,
emotions, memory, sleep, vision, hearing, sensations, Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, Parkinson鈥檚
disease, stroke, schizophrenia, epilepsy, depression, addictions and brain research.
The local competitions are in the question-and-answer format based on material from
, that is freely downloadable from the internet. The championship competitions may
also involve a neuroanatomy laboratory practical with real human brains, neurohistology
with microscopes, brain imaging identification and patient diagnosis with patient
actors.