Announcement
Date:
January 22, 2010
Subject: 2010 Central Arkansas
Brain Bee (Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:30 PM)
To:
Arkansas High School Science
Teachers and Department Chairs
The Arkansas Chapter of the Society for
Neuroscience and the Central Arkansas Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific
Research Society, are sponsoring a Brain Bee as part of National Brain Awareness
Week, March 15-21, 2010. The Brain Bee is a live question and answer
competition testing the neuroscience knowledge of high school students, grades
9-12. Last year, Mr. Alex Stokes, a senior from the Arkansas School for
Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts in Hot Springs, won the Central Arkansas
competition, and represented Arkansas in Baltimore, Maryland at the U.S.
National Brain Bee Championship. Alex also had the opportunity to tour the
National Institutes of Health and Washington, D.C. The winners of the local
brain bees from around the world are invited to their respective national brain
bees and the winners of these national events will be invited to the 2010
International Brain Bee Championship to be held August 12-14, 2010 in San Diego,
California.
The contest in
Little Rock will use questions taken from the information in the updated edition
of “Brain Facts- a 74-page primer on the brain and nervous system”, which can be
downloaded for free from
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainFacts.
More information about the Brain Bee competition can be found at
http://web.sfn.org/baw/bee.cfm
and
http://www.internationalbrainbee.com/.
The contestants will answer questions about how the brain relates to
intelligence, memory, emotions, sensations, stress, aging, anatomy, sleep,
addictions, Alzheimer’s Disease, stroke, etc. All participants will receive
participation awards and the student winner and a sponsor will receive prize
money to help defray the costs of attending the 2010 U.S. National Brain Bee
Championship in Baltimore, Maryland, March 19-21, 2010 as the Arkansas
representative.
Our local
competition will be held in conjunction with the 2010 Annual Arkansans for
Gifted & Talented Education Conference (AGATE) (http://www.agate-arkansas.org/conference.html)
and is limited to no more than three students per
sponsoring high school.
2010 Central
Arkansas Brain Bee
Thursday, February 25, 2010 (4:30 PM)
Manning Room at the Peabody Hotel
Three Statehouse Plaza (River Market District on Markham St.)
Little Rock, Arkansas
Please circulate this announcement to
any interested colleagues or post it in the teacher’s lounge. Any students who
are interested in participating should contact us via email by Monday, February
22, 2010, to indicate they plan to attend. Please include the student’s contact
information, grade, school and name of the sponsoring teacher.
Sincerely,
Tucker A. Patterson, Ph.D and John F. Bowyer, Ph.D.
Division of Neurotoxicology
National Center for Toxicological Research/Food & Drug
Administration
3900 NCTR Drive
Jefferson, AR 72079
tucker.patterson@fda.hhs.gov
Phone: 870-543-7427 (870-917-9961)
john.bowyer@fda.hhs.gov
Phone: 870-543-7194
