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| Sojas Wagle: World Youth Neuroscience Champion |
Press Release
08/10/2017
Future neuroscientists from 25 countries around the world met in Washington, DC this week to compete in the nineteenth World Brain Bee Championship. The Brain Bee is a neuroscience competition for young students, 13 to 19 years of age. It was hosted by the American Psychological Association. The International Brain Bee President and Founder is Dr. Norbert Myslinski (nmyslinski@umaryland.edu) of While in the US, twelve DC Ambassadors invited their respective national champions to visit their embassies to be honored, including India, Kenya, Egypt, Ukraine, Korea, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Poland and Germany. The Brain Bee involves more than knowledge; it involves relationships. It is an instrument of peace. The friendships and mutual respect developed during the Brain Bee will last a lifetime. The following are some edited comments from the competitors after the competition: Korea: I became a global person, more confident, and more comfortable interacting with diverse people. Australia: The Brain Bee has been one of the best experiences of my life. United States: It made me more passionate about neuroscience. Romania: I found out that this is what I want to do. Singapore: It gave me a deeper interest in the everlasting enigmas in the vast field of neuroscience. Italy: It gave me the ambition to work hard to find a place among the proud and satisfied neuroscientists that I met at the Brain Bee. Germany: The IBB absolutely confirmed my plan of study. It not only opened doors to my mind, but I am sure it will open doors to my chosen university. Ukraine: The Brain Bee showed me the magnificence and importance of neuroscience. It connected me with international people with the same interests as me, like neurons connect with each other. Malaysia: I am now motivated to make a change in the lives of people with brain disorders. Official List of 2017 World Brain Bee Competitor Information Prepared by Dr. Norbert Myslinski, Founder and World-Wide Director Region Name Australia Risini Gamage Brazil Hellen Valério Chaves Moura de Souza Canada Prerana Keerthi China Yixian Fu Egypt Mai Abdellatif Mahmoud Ismail Germany Julius Böhme Grenada Leondre Joseph India Rutvik Savaliya Iran Parsa Pat Israel Shira Ben Ami Italy Bianca Slivinschi Japan Yu Fujimura Kenya Ashley Mwikali Korea Soyeon Shim Macau Lei Hei Chit Malaysia Elwin Raj A/L Raj Vethamuthu Nepal Utsab Oli New Zealand Stefan Ivanov Nigeria Chizitere Uche Poland Milena Malcharek Romania Anca Mihaela Vasilica Singapore Isaac Chan Xu Rui Ukraine Anastasiia Tsymbaliuk United Arab Emirates Kartik Goyal United States Sojas Wagle Judges included Dr. Ingrid Tulloch from Stevenson
University, Dr. Paul Aravich from Eastern Virginia Medical School, and
Dr. Scott Moffat from Georgia Institute of Technology. Co-Coordinators
included Dr. Mike Gavini; Ricky Lim and Angela
Choi from the University of Maryland; Soren Christensen from Thomas
Jefferson High School; and Alexander Skvortsoy and Nicholas Chrapliwy of
the International Youth Neuroscience Association. Additional sponsors
included the American Society for Neurochemistry
and the Society for Neuroscience.
Sojas has a breath taking history of accomplishments. He is the captain of his school’s Quiz Bowl Team, and was state MVP for the last two years. He placed third in the National Geographic Bee in 2015. Last year, he was chosen for “Who Wants to be a Millionaire†Whiz Kids Edition. By the end of the game show, he had won $250,000, and later donated some of his winnings to his school district and a children’s hospital. He is also a member of the Arkansas Philharmonic Youth Orchestra where he plays violin as first chair. Second Place went to Milena Malcharek of August Witkowski High School in Cracow, Poland. Third Place went to Elwin Raj A/L P. Raj Vethamuthu from Sbpi Gopeng High School in Malaysia. Germany and Israel tied for fourth place, and Iran came in fifth. Sixth thru tenth places went to Grenada, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Korea.
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