CVHS Junior Ayushi Mohanty wins Regional Brain Bee and earns finalist spot at 2022 USA Brain Bee National Championship

Ayushi Mohanty, a junior at Carnegie Vanguard High School, is the winner of the 2022 Houston Area Brain Bee, an annual neuroscience competition hosted by Rice University on Saturday March 5th, 2022. High school students from all across Texas competed in the Houston Brain Bee. She is the only HISD student to qualify as a finalist to compete at the 2022 USA Brain Bee Championship.

The USA Brain Bee is a neuroscience competition for high schoolers and its purpose is to motivate students to learn about the human brain, apply it to their daily lives and to inspire them to enter careers in the basic and clinical brain sciences. The world needs future clinicians and researchers to treat and find cures for more than 1000 neurological and psychological disorders. Winners of the National Brain Bee of 50+ countries are sent to compete at the International Brain Bee championship. Approximately thirty thousand students compete annually.