July 9, 2022: CONGRATULATIONS to Helene Li,
who took FIRST PLACE at the International Brain Bee!
Helene Li is the International Brain Bee Champion!!!

We could not be more proud of our World Champion! Helene Li, the 2022 CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee champion, is the 2022 International Brain Bee champion! Helene is entering Grade 10 in the International Baccalaureate program at Merivale High School in Ottawa, Ontario. She took TOP place for Canada at the intense International Brain Bee competition, with 31 competing countries.
More information about the International Brain Bee (IBB):
The IBB program introduces the 31 competitors, the judges, and events.
The IBB Schedule provides links to recordings of the live-streamed events.
The IBB World Championship Announcement highlights Helene Li and the win for Canada, and provides ranks for the competing countries.

Listen to the CBC interview with Helene.
The FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) interview with Helene.

The 2022 CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee competition is completed!

The Canadian National Brain Bee competition was held remotely in 2022.
Dates: Friday and Saturday, May 27-28, 2022

We are thrilled to announce the top 3 winners
of the 2022 CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee!

First Place:  Helene Li, Ottawa Brain Bee
Second Place:  Alyanna Delos Reyes, Halifax Brain Bee
Third Place: Kiera Mitchell, Waterloo Brain Bee

Each of our 13 competitors won their local Brain Bee competitions!
In alphabetical order of Local Brain Bee:
Guntaas Randhawa: Calgary Brain Bee
Navdeep (Nav) Badhan: Edmonton Brain Bee
Alyanna Delos Reyes: Halifax Brain Bee
Aditi Gangal: Hamilton Brain Bee
Junior Nyamusa: London Brain Bee
Vera Chen: New Brunswick Brain Bee
Helene Li: Ottawa Brain Bee
Elijah Kurien: Toronto Brain Bee
Yue (Derek) Yu: Vancouver Brain Bee
Lauren King: Victoria Brain Bee
Kiera Mitchell: Waterloo Brain Bee
Anastasia Nikolik: Windsor Brain Bee
Muneeza Mohammad: Winnipeg Brain Bee

The Schedule and study materials for the National competition are outlined on the Preparing for the National page. (Your study materials for your own local brain bee may differ, so check with your own local brain bee for local study materials.)

Prizes for the Canadian National Brain Bee:  At the Canadian National Brain Bee, there will be cash prizes and trophies for the top 3 competitors:  $1500 first prize, $1000 second prize, $500 third prize. The top place National champion will also receive an opportunity for an internship in a neuroscience lab, and a trip to the Canadian Association for Neuroscience conference in Montreal in 2023.

International Brain bee: The Canadian National champion will represent Canada at the International Brain Bee competition! The IBB 2022 competition is scheduled to take place in conjunction with the FENS Forum of Neuroscience which will be held in Paris on July 9-13, 2022. Although the conference will have some in-person components, the IBB will be virtual for 2022.

First step – Study for your Local Brain Bee competition:
To compete at the National level, you must first win your local brain bee competition.
Your 2022 local brain bee competition may be held remotely or in person. Please check your local brain bee page to find information about registration, date, location, and study materials. If your local brain bee page is not yet updated, you can send an email to your local organizers at the email address listed on the local brain bee page.
Please read some important information about who can compete.

Like our page on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/CanadianNationalBrainBee.  
McMaster Daily News article

Check out our highlights from previous years under the History and Photos menu at the top of this page.

2022 Brain Bee Volunteers: Thank you to our National Brain Bee organizers (Nikol Piskuric, Angela Scott, Ayesha Khan, Ellen MacLellan, Shane Seheult, and Judith Shedden (Chair)), faculty and graduate student judges (Deda Gillespie, Paul Faure, Behrad Dehnadi, Yasaman Jabbari), staff (Sally Presutti), and our amazing undergraduate volunteers from the Neuroscience Honours program (Vishal Pandya, Minarose Ismail, Anish Puri, Jasmine Kwon, Christed Julian Moreno, Imad Ali, Shakshi Saini, Christopher Ko, Shiuli Khanna, Sepehr Khoshhal, Anagha Vinod, Ameer Hamoodi, Alex Kappen, Enola Sllogu, Sidney Kang, Sandy Luu, Sofia Campitelli, Keanna Nandlall, Davina Premraj, Gracia Abboud, Anveshana Naidoo, Caroline Lee, Harmil Kalia). If I have missed you, please let me know so that I can add your name here!
Thank you as well to all our organizing teams across Canada!