Programs for Young People:
Tennessee State-Wide
Brain Bee on the internet
- students in grades 9 through 12 compete in a Brain
Bee on the internet at Vanderbilt’s Virtual School
website at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/brainbee.htm
The Brain Bee was held Tuesday, February
10th, 2004
2004 Tennessee Statewide Brain
Bee Winner:
Jingyuan Wu, Oak
Ridge High School
Congratulations!!
Jing achieved a contest state all-time high score of
97 (shown above with his parents and Vanderbilt
Brain Institute Director, Elaine
Sanders-Bush, Ph.D.). As Tennessee's winner,
Jing competed in the International
Brain Bee at the University of Maryland
Medical School in Baltimore on March 19th-21st and
PLACED SECOND.
We are VERY pleased with our WINNER!! The
International Brain Bee
web site at http://web.sfn.org/baw/bee.cfm
Jing showed above while on visit in
a Vanderbilt neuroscientist
lab during his State Brain Bee Award Ceremony, Lunch
& Tour 3/11/04
Oak
Ridge student wins Tennessee Brain Bee Competition
Saturday, March 6th, 2004
Brain Blast!
Family
Fun at the Adventure
Science Center:
11:00 a.m.– 3:00 p.m.
Come to the Adventure
Science Center and enjoy a variety of hands-on
activities led by Vanderbilt neuroscience undergraduates,
graduate students, and faculty. Brain Blast is free,
but participants must pay the museum entry fee.
Also see the Brain Balloon – a brain-shaped,
9-story tall hot air balloon (http://www.brainballoon.com/main-frames.htm).
The balloon will be there all day.
Co-sponsored by the Vanderbilt
Center for Molecular Neuroscience, the Adventure
Science Center and the Vanderbilt
Brain Institute
Brain
Balloon floats at ASC
Photos
from Brain Blast 2004!
Neuroscience mentoring
sessions for middle and high school
students with some of our Brainstorm speakers. The sessions
will be videoconference to multiple schools. For information
contact the Vanderbilt
Brain Institute at 615-936-2637
See HERE
for more details about Brain Awareness 2004!
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