Fourth Annual CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee

McMaster University
May 28th, 2011

On May 28th, the top high school students from across Canada will compete for the right to be called the "best brain" in Canada. 

The CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee (CCNBB) is an event that brings together the very top high school students to test their neuroscience and brain research knowledge. The Canadian winner will go on to represent Canada at the International Brain Bee in Italy, in the late summer.

Brain Bee is like a spelling bee for high school students, except that the students compete to determine who has the "best brain" on such topics as memory, sleep, intelligence, emotion, perception, stress, aging, brain-imaging, neurology, neurotransmitters, genetics, and brain disease.

All Brain Bee competitions wrap up with the exciting oral elimination rounds which abide by the same rules as spelling bees. The top three winners received trophies and scholarship awards of $1,500, $1,000, and $500.