{"id":120227,"date":"2026-02-22T02:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120227\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:43:06","slug":"the-university-of-scranton-holds-its-25th-annual-northeastern-pennsylvania-brain-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120227\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of Scranton holds its 25th annual Northeastern Pennsylvania Brain Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muyan Liu, a high school junior from Philadelphia, won the Brain Bee, securing a $400 prize and a $1,000 scholarship to the University of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday, the University of Scranton held its 25th annual Northeastern Pennsylvania Brain Bee in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Offering high school students a chance to test their knowledge on topics from emotions to stress.<\/p>\n<p>11 students participated.<\/p>\n<p>The winner, receiving a 400 dollar prize, a $1,000 scholarship to the university, and a chance at the National Brain Bee in California.<\/p>\n<p>Muyan Liu, a junior at a high school in Philadelphia, made the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there will definitely be more competition there. I&#8217;m really looking forward to keep preparing for the nationals and to learn more knowledge about neuroscience,&#8221; said Liu.<\/p>\n<p>Muyan hopes to pursue neuroscience and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muyan Liu, a high school junior from Philadelphia, won the Brain Bee, securing a $400 prize and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-120227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}