Halifax Brain Bee 2024
Calling all high school students of Nova Scotia! Sign up to participate in the brain bee. This is a national neuroscience competition and a great opportunity for anyone considering a career in health care.
Competition information:
- When: Monday, March 11, 2024, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
- Where: Brain Repair Centre (1348 Summer Street Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2)
A couple of Neuroscience students at Dalhousie have also (tentatively) organized a review session to help you all prepare for the competition.
Review Session Information:
- When: Thursday, March 7th 2024, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
- Where: Room C150 of the Collaborative Health Education Building (CHEB; 5793 University Ave, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2)
Feel free to DM us on Instagram @mapmentorship with any questions. Looking forward to meeting some talented students!
More information can be found below:
Halifax Brain Bee 2024
Useful resources (all are free and online!):
Where to start
BrainFacts textbook: Provides you an introduction to the brain and nervous system with language that is easy to understand. Previous winners of the BrainBee also recommend this resource. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PVu3iCe_AUlDZHeMOwIq1adhrsCmsuR5/view
Anatomy
- Interactive Atlases: Allows you to virtually play around with the brain to learn more about the location of its structures! http://da.si.washington.edu/da.html
- Anatomy Atlases: Worksheet style practice to learn the anatomy of the brain, spinal cord, head, and neck. https://www.anatomyatlases.org/
- Imaios Online interactive atlas: Has examples of the brain in diagrams, MRI scans, and dissections to help you learn where everything is. https://www.imaios.com/en/e-anatomy
- BrainFacts.org interactive brain model: With this tool, you can build the brain in different layers to see how everything is positioned beside each other. https://www.brainfacts.org/3d-brain#intro=true
Histology
- Yale Nervous System Histology: Great resource that shows you different stains of important brain structures. https://medcell.org/histology/nervous_system_lab.php
- UC San Diego MedPics: Provides practice tests and examples of brain histology. https://medpics.ucsd.edu/index.cfm?curpage=main&course=hist&mode=review
Other Resources
- Neuroscience online (electronic textbook) https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/toc.htm
- University of Vermont study guide: List of resources and topics compiled by students that are deemed helpful for the Brain Bee. https://docs.google.com/document/d/15WVbebQvPDsv4Xf_AOtoUkdNFtf9VzVZG_S2jqdZJdA/edit
- BioNinja: This website is tried and true by the both of us. The human brain and behaviour sections are relevant and extremely useful. https://old-ib.bioninja.com.au/options/option-a-neurobiology-and/
Practice Problems
- Scioly: Do the Anatomy and Physiology tests from 2013 and 2017. https://scioly.org/tests/
- University of Maryland website: Has a pretty broad list of questions that are relevant to different areas of the Brain Bee. https://www.dental.umaryland.edu/brainbee/for-the-competitor/sample-questions/
- Brain Bee UK practice questions: Sample questions from tests that were previously used in the Brain Bee. http://brainbee-uk.com/?page_id=2356