Pictured (l-r) are Blue Ridge Elementary November 2012 Citizens Of The Month: 1st row – Erin Klock, Owen Martin, Marissa Fiske, Madison Gaylord, Julia Smalley; 2nd row – Breanna Post, Jackson Donovan, Tieler Stilloe, Abigail Laude, Jeidy Villalobos, Paul James Sparks, Dalton Rutter; 3rd row – Mr. Button, Isaac Arzola-Ve’lez, Brandon Bartkus, Alexis Parks, Mykenzie Layton, Ashton Fiske, Chase Cosgrove. Absent from photo - Journey Wojtkowski, Olivia Folk, Layla Sinnett, Nathan Garrehy, Aaron Beesley, Stephen Lines.

Area high school students can put some of their brains’ approximately 100 billion neurons to the test at the 14th annual Northeast PA Brain Bee at The University of Scranton on Saturday, Feb. 9. The competition is open to high school students in grades 9 to 12. The Brain Bee begins at 1:30 p.m. in the Loyola Science Center on the University’s campus.

The Northeast PA Brain Bee encourages high school students to study the brain and how it relates to intelligence, memory, emotions, sensations, movements, stress, aging, sleep and brain disorders. All questions for the competition will be drawn from “Brain Facts,” a book on the brain and nervous system published by the Society for Neuroscience.

Sponsored by the Neuroscience Program at The University of Scranton, the Brain Bee is offered free of charge, however, registration is required to participate and must be completed on, or before, Friday, Feb. 1.

The winner of the Northeast PA Brain Bee will be invited to participate in National Brain Bee, which will be held in Baltimore, Md. Aidan Crank of Stroudsburg, last year’s winner of the Northeast PA competition, went on to win the 2012 national competition.

For more information contact Robert Waldeck, Ph.D., program director and associate professor of biology, at 570-941-4324 or robert.waldeck@scranton.edu.

Mr. Robert Keyes, Principal of Susquehanna Community Elementary School, announces the “Student of the Month” for December, 2012 for Grades Kindergarten, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth.

Pictured (l-r) are Grades K-3:  Row 1 - Lorissa Biesecker, Matthew Matis, David Benson, Rilynn Groover; Row 2 - Kerstin Dooley, Lexis Iveson, Olivia Rossi, Alexander Bishop; Row 3 - Aidan Rockwell, Lacey O’Hara, Spencer Beamer. Absent – Alyssa Gianunzio, Colton Stone, Amy Dahm.

Pictured (l-r) are Grades 4-6: Row 1 - Cortney Bennett, Gavin Baker, Elizabeth Stewart, Sophie Lawrenson; Row 2 - Jonas Sjogren, Jakub Tomczyk, Emily DeVries, Mackenzie Steele, Harlee Burns; Row 3 - Canyon Stone, Mason Deakin, William Perry. Absent – Katrina Preitz, Mikaela Swank, Timothy Towers.