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News Release - February 23, 2015

Jennifer Forbes
Communications & Public Affairs
732-235-6356, jenn.forbes@rwjms.rutgers.edu

 

Eleventh-grade Student from West Windsor-Plainsboro
Wins Central New Jersey Brain Bee Competition

 

 

 

 

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School hosted the Central New Jersey Brain Bee at which high school students showed off their knowledge of the brain and central nervous system. Pictured from l. to r. are: third-place winner, Kasey McFadden; 2014 National Brain Bee champion, Adam Elliot; first-place winner, Roger Jin; and second-place winner Monal Garg.

   
   

PISCATAWAY, NJ – Roger Jin, an eleventh-grade student at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, won the 2015 Central New Jersey Regional Brain Bee, defeating 47 other high school students who participated in the event held at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Roger earned an expense-paid trip for two to compete in the National Brain Bee Competition at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, March 20-22, 2015.

Modeled after a traditional spelling bee, the Brain Bee is a live question and answer competition, during which students are quizzed about the human brain and central nervous system. During three rounds of competition, the contestants answer questions derived from the book Brain Facts, published by the Society for Neuroscience.  

Monal Garg, an eleventh-grade student from East Brunswick High School placed second in the Central New Jersey competition, and tenth-grade student, Kasey McFadden of Matawan Regional High School, placed third. Adam Elliot, the 2014 Central New Jersey Brain Bee winner and current National Brain Bee winner, presented the 2015 winners with their respective awards.  

Held for the fifth year in a row at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the event was hosted by the department of neuroscience and cell biology, and coordinated by Michael Matise, PhD, associate professor, with the support of Cheryl Dreyfus, PhD, professor and chair of the department. Faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students who conduct research at the medical school served as the competition’s judges.

  

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