PAST COMPETITIONS

On Saturday, March 2, 2024, thirty-nine students competed in the annual Atlanta Regional Brain Bee held in the PAIS Building on the campus of Emory University. 

• First Place Champion: Katherine Perez from Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee
• Second Place: Henry Miller from Ravenwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee
• Third Place: Aimee Segoviano from East High School in Memphis, Tennessee

And once again – all of the competitors impressed us with their engagement with the material and their interactions with each other. We look forward to having them return.

In her own words: My favorite part of the Brain Bee was being able to connect what I learned to real-world phenomena. So much of “Brain Facts,” from the process of language learning to the different types of memory, provides a biological explanation for phenomena we all experience in our day-to-day lives. And at the competition, exhibits – from touching real brains to measuring my own brain activity – provided a hands-on look at what neuroscience could look like in our present and future. Katherine Perez

2023: Ankita Nukala from the Brookstone School in Columbus, Georgia, was our 2023 Champion; Sai Ronith Ala from Northview High School in Johns Creek, Georgia came in second place; and Elina Natu from Campbell High School in Smyrna, Georgia came in third place.

2022: SriDhanya Muppala from Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia, was our 2022 Champion; Jimmy Wu from the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee came in second place; and Elina Natu from Campbell High School in Smyrna, Georgia came in third place.

2021: Chinmay Joshi from Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia, was our 2021 Champion. Coming in second place was Shreyas Gupta from Wheeler High School, also in Marietta, and Keerthi Dwarampudi in third place from Lambert High School in Suwanee. North Atlanta students – way to represent!!

2020: It is such a pleasure to announce that our 2020 Champion’s title and $100 first-place prize went to our youngest champion, Veda Dayananda from Charlotte, North Carolina. Our second-place winner was Melissa Du from Durham, North Carolina, and Nipun Gorantla from Matthews, North Carolina was our third-place winner. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Veda represented Georgia in the Virtual 2021 USA Brain Bee in April 2021 alongside our 2021 representative, Chinmay Joshi.

2019: The 2019 Atlanta Regional Brain Bee Champion title and $100 grand prize was awarded to Henry Shen of Oak Ridge, TN. Henry was able to compete in our Atlanta Brain Bee since Tennessee did not have a competition in their state. Our second-place winner was Aditi Pande of The Westminster Schools in Atlanta and third-place winner was Skylar Ragsdale of Lambert High School in Suwanee. Henry went on to represent Georgia and placed FOURTH at the National Brain Bee Competition at the Penn State College of Medicine in March 2019.

2018: First place went to Aayush Setty, a sophomore from North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, GA, who represented the state of Georgia at the 2018 U.S. National Brain Bee in Baltimore, Maryland. Aayush placed 6th at Nationals!

2017: First place went to Anish Bikmal, a sophomore from South Forsyth High School in Cumming, GA, who represented the state of Georgia at the 2017 U.S. National Brain Bee in Baltimore, Maryland. Bikmal placed 19th at Nationals!

2016: First place went to William Ellsworth, a freshman from Walton High School, who will represent the state of Georgia at the 2016 U.S. National Brain Bee in Baltimore, Maryland. Ellsworth placed 3rd at Nationals.

2015: First place went to Pranav Prabu, a senior from Chattahoochee High School, who represented the state of Georgia at the 2015 U.S. National Brain Bee in Baltimore, Maryland.

2014: The 2014 Atlanta Regional Brain Bee Champion title and $100 grand prize was awarded to Ranjani Sundaresan from Alpharetta High School. Second place and the $75 cash prize was won by Pyung On Choi from Lake Mary High School. Third place award and $50 check went to Pranav Prabu from Chattahoochee High School. All three top winners were high school juniors.