Tonight was the DC regional brain bee! We had 19 kids from schools in DC and southern MD. (There is a northern VA brain bee for those kids.) We had a professor from Georgetown university, Ben Walker, be our judge. He has been the judge for out brain bee for almost 10 years! He actually brought a human brain for the kids to see, which they really enjoyed.
Our winner was a girl named Sara from Richard Montgomery high school. She will be traveling up to Baltimore in early march for the US brain bee, and the chance to represent the US in the international brain bee in September.
Did you write the questions for this bee?
ReplyDeleteI actually got grad students from Georgetown to help this year. They only had to write a few each, and then I went through them all to make sure they came from the book and were clear enough. But it took a ton of work off of me!
ReplyDeleteThe students also came to help judge. In the past I've gotten sfn staff, but they don't know neuroscience so can't tell if an answer is close. I like to have the ultimate judge make all final decisions, but he can't be expected to look at all the students answers, so having the grad students there this time was a big help.