USA Student Wins World Neuroscience Competition Future neuroscientists from 25 countries around the world met in Washington, DC this week to compete in the nineteenth World Brain Bee Championship. The Brain Bee is a neuroscience competition for young students, 13 to 19 years of age. It was hosted by the American Psychological Association. The International Brain Bee President and Founder is Dr. Norbert Myslinski …
Testing Tactics Getting the correct answer, even when you know nothing, is one of the defining skills of the academic champion. The rest of this book is about developing your knowledge. This chapter is about what to do when things go wrong. You’ll encounter questions you can’t answer throughout the rest of the book. Treat them as practice. While …
The floral diagrams and formulas come up relatively often in the biology olympiad. So knowing how to represent and analyze the different floral whorls is useful. Below are some good resources to help you learn faster how to make the floral diagrams. How to Draw a Floral Diagram (With Diagram) Video 1 Video 2
Laboratory skills are crucial for any biology olympiad, including USABO and IBO. Over the years of my own preparation and while tutoring others, I gathered this of techniques that are essential to know for the biology olympiad, especially for the International Biology Olympiad. CELL BIOLOGY Use of a microtome to make slides, Cell Fractionation, Microscopy (measurement of objects), Immunostaining, Histology, Haemocytometer, Drawing of preparations, Maceration and …
The Biology Committee has organized the Hong Kong Biology Olympiad for Secondary Schools2016/2017 for the FIRST ROUND (Written Test) on 19th Nov-2016. It’s encouraging that there were2583 students from 176 secondary schools took the test. Several testing centers were administered toaccommodate 2583 students on the same day. For individual awards, there are four levels of honour categorized according to their …
In its eighteenth iteration, 2016 was a record-breaking year for the Brain Bee World Championship Neuroscience Competition, held from June 30 – July 4, 2016 in Copenhagen, hosted by the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) 10th Forum of Neuroscience. It was the largest program to date, engaging twenty-five student National Champion participants from all corners of the globe. For …
16-year-old wins a ‘nail biting’ international neuroscience competition by only ‘half a mark’ in Queensland By Aneeta Bhole For Daily Mail Australia and Aap A 16-year-old Sydney girl has won an international neuroscience competition hosted over six days in the city of Cairns, Queensland. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3212272/16-year-old-wins-nail-biting-international-neuroscience-competition-half-mark-Queensland.html#ixzz53MYUeD1L
The International Brain Bee World Championship is the highest level in the IBB Competition. Participation in the World Championship is reserved only for Regional Brain Bee Champions (or their runner-up if the Champion cannot make it), and is therefore a very distinguished event. Young men and women from all over the world compete to determine who has the “best brain” on such topics as intelligence, memory, emotions, stress, aging, sleep, neurological and psychological diseases …