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2009 New South Wales State Final

Foreground: The Hills Grammar School team members prepare for the team event. They went on to secure 3rd place in the team competition.

Students participated in interactive neuroanatomy and neurophysiology workshops. They enjoyed the opportunity to acquire and analyse real data in the popular ADInstruments LabTutor workshops.

Participants enjoyed lunch whilst the UWS crew filmed the event for TVS Sydney for screening in August 2009.

Professor Vaughan Macefield (left) congratulates the individual competition winners from left to right: Andrew Li (1st place), Elizabeth Huynh (2nd place) and Jedda Elliott (3rd place). Andrew and Elizabeth attend James Ruse High School and Jedda is a student at The Illawarra Grammar School. Rear: Dr Karen Kool, represented Brain Sciences UNSW, sponsors of the event, providing neuroscience books as prizes. ADInstruments also sponsored the event with prizes of ipods for all individual winners and all 12 winning team members.

Baulkham Hills High School won the team event. From left to right: Michael Lin, Martin Fong, Jennyfer Ong and Ilona Islam (captain). ADInstruments sponsored the event with prizes of ipods for all individual winners as well as the 12 members of the winning teams.

Left to right: Jinghang Luo, Andrew Li and Elizabeth Huynh (James Ruse Agricultural High School students) compete in the semi-finals.

Andrew Li competing in the individual finals.

The trophy for 1st place in the NSW State Finals was awarded to Andrew Li..

2008 New South Wales State Final

The 2008 New South Wales State Final was held on June 24th, 2008 at The School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney. 10 teams were invited to compete and 116 individual finalists competed.

Results of Round 2 ABBC New South Wales 2008

Team Competition:

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  1st place: James Ruse Agricultural High School, Jacqueline Lai, Jessie Jung, Tina Guan and Aditi Halder left, Professor Vaughan Macefield School, right, Professor Neville Yeomans.
• 2nd place: Baulkham Hills High
• 3rd place: North Sydney Boys High

Individual Competition:

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  1st place: Jayson Jeganathan, Baulkham Hills High (centre), left, Professor of Integrative Physiology and Coordinator of the NSW Brain Bee Challenge Vaughan Macefield, and right, the UWS Dean of Medicine, Professor Neville Yeomans.
• 2nd place: Jessie Jung, James Ruse Agricultural
• 3rd place: Peter Bradhurst, Baulkham Hills High

2007 New South Wales State Final

The 2007 New South Wales State Final was held on March 13th, 2007, at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney.

Results of Round 2 ABBC New South Wales 2007

Team Competition:

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  1st place: Presbyterian Ladies College, pictured above
• 2nd place: Baulkham Hills High
• 3rd place: Bombala High

Individual Competition:

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  1st place: Dishan Seeviratna, Baulkham Hills High
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  2nd place: Konrad Islam, Baulkham Hills High
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  3rd place: Nancy Ma, Presbyterian Ladies College

More photos from the day

   

Prof Vaughan G Macefield State Coordinator Professor of Integrative Physiology School of Medicine College of Health and Science University of Western Sydney Campbelltown Campus Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC, NSW 1797 Conjoint Principal Research Fellow Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute Phone: +61 2 9852 4660 Fax: +61 2 9852 4701 email inquiries to: susan.smith@uws.edu.au

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