COMPETITION

Atlanta Regional Brain Bee

When: Saturday, March 15, 2025, tentatively 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Where: Emory University, Main Campus, Building and Room TBA

Eligibility: Georgia students aged 13 to 19 are welcome to participate. Students from neighboring states that do not host Brain Bees may also compete with advance approval. Participants may only compete in one regional Brain Bee competition per year. Participants are only allowed to compete in the National Brain Bee and International Brain Bee once in their lifetime.

Format: The Brain Bee will consist of a preliminary written exam for all participants, and multiple oral rounds of competition, leading finally to the final Jeopardy-style rounds of competition.

All registrants will participate in the written round – a written exam consisting of multiple-choice and short-answer questions. The top-performing students of the written round (approximately 10-12 based on written exam scores) will move on to the oral rounds of competition. In the oral rounds, the students will be asked questions individually and must answer aloud.

The top three finishers will receive monetary prizes.

The last remaining student will be named the Atlanta Regional Brain Bee Champion and will be eligible to compete in the National Brain Bee. 

Preparation: Sign up for one (or both!) of our Saturday workshops. Questions from the written and oral rounds are based on Brain Facts, a primer on the brain and nervous system that is published by the Society for Neuroscience. Brain Facts is available for download as a PDF at the link above. It may also help to look at the sample questions released on the International Brain Bee website. Finally, as any neuroscientist knows, getting a good sleep the night before the Brain Bee is critical for top performance!