3nd Annual San Diego Regional Brain Bee for High School Students ~ Call for Student Nominations

Letters went out to over 130 regional public and private schools on Monday, November 8, 2010 to ask for their student nominations to compete in the San Diego Regional Brain Bee on January 29, 2011. A teacher or school administrator (limit 2 students per school) must nominate students no later than Friday, December 3, 2010. Student names and their grade-level (9th thru 12th) must be sent from a school email account to sdbrainbee@gmail.com or mailed on official school letterhead to Dr. Doug Nitz/UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0515, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515. Once a student has been nominated by their school, they must register via the online application at www.sandiegobrainbee.com by Friday, December 10, 2010 at 11:59 p.m.   The first 75 qualified students will be accepted and they will be notified by Monday, December 21, 2010.

The Brain Bee event engages local high school students interested in the brain in a friendly, one-day competition, and provides them with opportunities to engage with top scientists from local research institutes and universities and to meet college and graduate science students. Local sponsorships are being sought to help underwrite the costs and promote the contest, which will be held at The Neurosciences Institute at 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego. Dr. Nicholas Spitzer, Professor of Biology at UCSD will act as host of the competition, with many other prominent neuroscientists in attendance.

The Brain Bee will quiz the best young minds in the county about the brain and how it relates to intelligence, memory, emotions, sensations, movement, stress, aging, sleep and neurological disorders such as drug addiction, Alzheimer's disease and stroke. The winner will receive a $500 gift certificate, trophy, and airfare and hotel for two with an invitation to compete at the National Brain Bee in mid-March 2011. Other prizes will be awarded to top finishers and all participants will receive a T-shirt and certificate of participation. Questions for the local Brain Bee will be derived from the latest edition of "Brain Facts” published by the Society for Neuroscience. The book is available to download from the Society for Neuroscience web site www.sfn.org.

For more information, please contact Debbie Honeycutt at 858-626-2020 or at honeycutt@nsi.edu. The Brain Bee event is open to the public, and parents and teachers are encouraged to attend.

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