High school students have an opportunity to display their brainpower by competing in the 2015 Central New Jersey Regional Brain Bee.
Modeled after a traditional spelling bee, the Brain Bee is a live Q-and-A competition in which students are quizzed about the human brain and central nervous system.
The contest will be held 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 7 at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway.
The top three finishers will receive cash prizes, and the first-place winner will receive an expenses-paid trip for two to compete in the National Brain Bee Competition at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, March 20-22, to coincide with Brain Awareness Week.
There is no cost to participate.
To become a contestant, visit rwjms.rutgers.edu/departments_ institutes/neuroscience/ BrainBee/BrainBee.html.
All competition questions are derived from the book “Brain Facts,” published by the Society for Neuroscience, which can be downloaded for free at www.brainfacts.org/ about-neuroscience/brain-facts-book.
For more information, call 732-235- 5390, or email Dr. Michael Matise at matisemp@ rwjms.rutgers.edu or Joan Mordes at [email protected].