International Brain Bee World Championship
Categories: Living with Brain Injury
Fifteen-year-old Canadian high school student Helene Li is the 2022 International Brain Bee World Champion. Second place went to 17-year-old Anmol Bhatia from the USA, and third place to 17-year-old Ugne Birstonaite from Lithuania. The winners were announced at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2022 in Paris. The 11 finalists joined the conference stage by Zoom and were introduced by special guest and last year’s World Champion Viktoriia Vydhzak from Ukraine.
The Brain Bee is the world’s premier neuroscience competition for teenagers. The World Championship brings together students from across the world for an important educational and cultural experience. A total of 31 national Brain Bee champions from across the globe took part in the virtual 2022 event held in July, hosted by FENS, and organized in collaboration with the Paris Brain Institute. Each competitor had previously won their national or regional Brain Bee to qualify forthe international championship.
This article originally appeared in Volume 16, Issue 3 of THE Challenge! published in 2022.