Australia’s ‘brainiest’ student
A young Queenslander has been named Australia’s ‘neuroscientist of the future’ after the country’s brightest young minds competed in the finals of the Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABCC) held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre recently.
A young Queenslander has been named Australia’s ‘neuroscientist of the future’ after the country’s brightest young minds competed in the finals of the Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABCC) held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre recently.
Jackson Huang from Queensland Academy of Science, Mathematics and Technology beat seven other Australian finalists and two New Zealanders in a test of brainpower in front of a live audience during a brain teasing anatomy exam, doctor patient diagnosis, written test and a neuroscience quiz.
ABBC, an initiative of the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at The University of Queensland (UQ), is reportedly Australia’s only neuroscience competition for high school students and is a test of knowledge about important facts and concepts concerning intelligence, memory, emotions, sensations, movement, stress, ageing, sleep, Alzheimer’s disease and stroke, and is designed to inspire students to pursue careers in neuroscience research.
Pictured is Australian Neuroscience Society president. John Rostas; Australian Brain Bee Challenge winner, Jackson Huang and Queensland Brain Institute director, Professor Perry Bartlett.
Mr Huang will now compete in the International Brain Bee Competition held in Vienna, Austria later this year. Runner up was Zelda Perri of Presentation College Windsor in Melbourne.
