Press Releases

January 21, 2002
Southampton College Seeks Volunteer Local Educators for Brain Bee Preparation Courses

Teachers Can Earn Professional Development Credit for Training Workshops

Contact:
Patricia Conway (PR@southampton.liu.edu)
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081

Southampton College is seeking local educators to volunteer to help prepare high school participants for the Third Annual Brain Bee competition, to be held at the College on February 23.

The Saturday morning workshop series, scheduled for February 2, 9 and 16, will be headed by two widely published psychobiologists, Southampton College Professors John Neill and Paul Forestell. The classes will run from 8:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Long Island high school teachers and students interested in neuroscience, the preparation courses and the Brain Bee can contact Southampton College Professor Neill at (631) 287-8202 for more information. Teachers can earn professional development credits in the Brain Bee prep classes, which will help them prepare their students for this exciting contest.

The Brain Bee quizzes the best young brains in the country about the brain and how it relates to intelligence, memory, emotions, sensations, movement, stress, aging, sleep and neurological disorders, such as drug addiction, Alzheimer's Disease and stroke. The winner of each regional contest is then invited to the National Brain Bee in mid-March. All the questions for the local Brain Bee come from one book, "Brain Facts," published by the Society for Neuroscience. The book can be obtained from the Society for Neuroscience