The 2025 Waterloo Brain Bee will be held on Saturday, March 1st, 2025!

Registration is now open here.

 

 

Congratulations to our 2024 winners!

First Place: Emily Huang (Grade 10) from Laurel Heights Secondary School

Second Place: Naheel Krem (Grade 10) from Laurel Heights Secondary School

Third Place: Brenna Allen (Grade 9) from Waterloo Collegiate Institute

If you are interested in human anatomy and would like to learn about more opportunities to learn, please check out our Anatomy 101 program.

Fascinated by the human brain?

Are you interested in:

• how our mind interprets our surroundings and makes decisions
• how our brain controls our muscles so we can move, and
• how chemical imbalances in the brain may cause a range of different neurological diseases?

If yes, then participate in the University of Waterloo’s Annual Brain Bee Competition! You will learn this and much more!

The University of Waterloo’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences annual Region of Waterloo Brain Bee is tentatively scheduled to take place in-person on Saturday, March 1st 2025

Registration will open in September 2024

The Brain Bee is an exciting opportunity for students to learn about the brain and the importance of brain research. There is no cost to register or participate in this competition.

The first 100 students who check in on the day of the event will receive a Brain Bee swag package!

The event will feature some live demonstrations of neuroscience lab activities happening on campus, a multiple-choice quiz, draws for additional prizes, and cash prizes for the 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place winners!

The winner of the Waterloo Brain Bee will have the opportunity to visit campus and learn additional neuroanatomy using real human brain specimens. They will also advance to compete in the National Brain Bee competition (more details to come). Additional details about the National Brain Bee competition can be found at the main site: http://brainbee.ca

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What is the Brain Bee Competition?

The Brain Bee is a competition for high school students where competitors answer questions about the brain and neuroscience that are taken from a free introductory neuroscience publication/booklet available below.

First, second and third place prizes are awarded, $400, $200 and $100 respectively. The first place winner will move on to the Canadian National Brain Bee. The winner of the National will move on to the International Brain Bee (IBB), where competitors across the globe will compete for the international title and prizes.

Students study topics such as memory, sleep, intelligence, emotion, perception, stress, brain imaging, neurotransmitters, genetics and brain disease, to list a few.

The competition will take place in a large lecture theatre. Questions will be displayed on a screen for a limited amount of time. Competitors will be given an iClicker device in order to answer each question.

Who can participate?

The competition is open to students in grades 9 through 12 in the Region of Waterloo and surrounding areas. Please note that there are also Brain Bee events happening in Hamilton (McMaster Universtiy), Guelph (University of Guelph), Toronto (University of Toronto), and in London (Western University). Students should participate in the Brain Bee that is located closest to their high school.

When and Where is the competition held?

The next Region of Waterloo Brain Bee is tentatively scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 1st, 2025

What do I need to study for the competition?

There will be only these three sets of study materials for our local competition. Additional resources may be assigned if you progress to the national or international competitions.

All of our questions will come from these resources:

Brain Facts 2018
Open Neuroscience Initiative
Neuroscience Online

How can I compete?

1. Register online (check back for a registration link in September 2024)

2. Access this years study guides and study the information contained in these resources

3. For assistance with studying here is a link to the International Brain Bee page containing some sample questions: International Brain Bee 

 

The winner of the local Brain Bee will compete in the National Brain Bee hosted by McMaster University. The winner of the National Brain Bee will compete in the International Brain Bee (IBB) where competitors across the globe will compete for international title and prizes.

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