Announcements

Congratulations to the 2025 Brain Bee Winner Amy Swenson!

We are excited to announce and congratulate Amy Swenson from Box Elder High School as the 2025 winner of the Brain Bee competition!

Congratulations to the 2024 Brain Bee Winner Rowan Byassee!

We are delighted to announce and congratulate Rowan Byassee as the 2024 winner of the Brain Bee competition!

Congratulations to the 2023 Brain Bee Winner Shayan Pandit !

We are delighted to announce and congratulate Shayan Pandit as the 2023 winner of the Brain Bee competition!

Congratulations to the 2022 Brain Bee Winner Shelby Locke !

We are delighted to announce and congratulate Shelby Locke from Weber High School as the 2022 winner of the Brain Bee competition!

Congratulations to the 2021 Brain Bee Winner Kate Kaufman !

We are delighted to announce and congratulate Kate Kaufman from Olympus High School as the 2021 winner of the Brain Bee competition! Kate tied for first place and won our tiebreaker round! She is spending her summer in the Shepherd lab determining the involvement of a particular pathway, the ESCRT pathway, in the release of Arc from neurons in extracellular vesicles.

Congratulations to 2020 Brain Bee Winner, Malavika Singh!

We are delighted to announce and congratulate Malavika Singh from West High as the 2020 winner of the Brain Bee competition! She is developing Virtual Study Sessions for this years event to help our participants familiarize themselves with Neuroscience topics and moderating the Utah Synapses SLACK account where we foster discussion of Neuroscience topics among Utah High School students. Congratulations to both Mala, West High, and her teacher Kristie Goddard!

Congratulations to 2019 Brain Bee Winner, Ziyu Wang!

We are delighted to announce and congratulate Ziyu Wang from Wasatch Academy as the 2019 winner of the Brain Bee competition! She spent her summer doing an internship in the lab of Dr. KC Brennan. His lab uses a combination of imaging and electrophysiology techniques to study cortical spreading depression (CSD), a wave of excitation in the brain thought to be the basis of migraine aura. Congratulations to both Ziyu, Wasatch Academy, and her teacher Janette Newton!

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