Winnipeg teen takes second in neuroscience competition [Video]

A Winnipeg high school student placed second at the International Brain Bee, an international neuroscience contest, where she competed against nearly 3,000 other students from 40 countries in Chicago, Ill.

“For me, it was like, so surprising,” 11th-grader Lisa Wei told CTV News. “I was not expecting it at all.”

To get there, Wei won a local Winnipeg competition organized by the University of Manitoba and then competed against 20 contestants at the Canadian National Brain Bee tournament which was held in Vancouver.

Wei says she did a lot of studying on her time off.

“The preparation definitely consisted of reading the materials online,” she said.

“I spent my summer months learning it, setting goals, for example, how many chapters or articles to read per day and I spent the rest of the September month to review the sections I read during the summer.”

The competition, which was held online, focuses on facts about the brain, from basic functions to more …