International Brain Bee

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The International Brain Bee (IBB) is a neuroscience competition for teenagers. The IBB was founded in 1999 by Norbert Myslinski, and consists of over 200 chapters in more than 50 regions on 6 continents. [1] Its purpose is to help treat and find cures for brain disorders by inspiring and motivating students to pursue careers in basic and clinical neuroscience. [2]

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The IBB governing body is a consortium consisting of the American Psychological Association, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, International Brain Research Organization, and Society for Neuroscience. [3] Winners of the chapter competitions are invited to compete in their respective region championships, where they vie for the right to compete in the world championship. Past venues for the world championship include Montreal, Canada; San Diego, USA; Vienna, Austria; Washington, DC, USA; Cape Town, South Africa; Florence, Italy; Cairns, Australia; Baltimore, USA; Toronto, Canada; and Copenhagen, Denmark. [4]

Past champions

International

Winners at the international level competed against representatives from other nations. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

YearFirst place WinnerCountrySecond place WinnerCountryThird place WinnerCountry
1999David Alpay Canada
2000Otilia Husu United States
2001Arjun Bharioke United States
2002Marvin Chum Canada
2003Saroj Kunnakkat United States
2004Bhaktapriya Nagalla United States
2005John Liu United States
2006Jong Park Canada
2007Melody Hu United States
2008Elena Perry United States
2009Julia Chartove United States Kate Burgess New Zealand
2010Ritika Chohani India Ben Thompson Australia
2011Thanh-Liem Huynh-Tran United States United States
2012Teresa Tang Australia Ionut Flavius Bratu Romania
2013Jackson Huang Australia Giulio Deangeli Italy
2014Gayathri Muthukumar India Eva Wang Australia
2015Jade Pham Australia Soren Christensen United States Andra Cristiana Stefan Romania
2016Ana Ghenciulescu Romania Nooran AbuMazen Canada Matthew Z.M Fulton New Zealand
2017Sojas Wagle United States Milena Malcharek Poland Elwin Raj A/L P. Raj Vethamuthu Malaysia
2018Piotr Oleksy Poland Giovanni De Gannes Grenada Huai-Ying Huang Canada
2019Yidou Weng China Natalia Koc Poland Kamand Soufiabadi Iran
2020Rahil Patel United States Yu Cheng Lim Malaysia Peter Susanto Australia
2021Fredrick Odezugo Nigeria Viktoriia Vydzhak Ukraine Antoni Klonowski Canada
2022Helene Li Canada Anmol Bhatia United States Ugne Birstonaite Lithuania
2023Chun Hei Tai Hong Kong Stanley Zhang New Zealand Kimia Ahmadi Iran
2024Samuel Richards Australia Lisa Wei Canada Siqi Pan China

United States

Winners at the national level competed against representatives from other states. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

YearFirst place WinnerStateSecond place WinnerStateThird place WinnerState
2007Melody Hu MN
2008Elena Perry MD
2009Julia Chartove MD
2010Yvette Leung NY
2011Thanh-Liem Huynh-Tran CA
2012Aidan Crank PA Sidharth Chand MI
2013Emily Ruan MN Anvita Mishra CA
2014Adam Elliot NJ Venkata Macha AL
2015Soren Christensen DC Abhijeet Sambangi MA
2016Karina Bao AR Xuchen Wei IN William Ellsworth GA
2017Sojas Wagle AR Aarthi Vijayakumar MN Amit Kannan IN
2018Akhil Kondepudi MO Hemanth Asirvatham MN Sehej Bindra NJ
2019John Yang NJ Julia Collin NJ Claire Wang CA

Location

Local brain bees take place in their respective states, while the National Brain Bee in the United States is usually held in Baltimore, Maryland. The site of the International Brain Bee [24] changes yearly:

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