{"id":120246,"date":"2026-02-22T03:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120246\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:19:07","slug":"the-university-of-scranton-holds-its-25th-annual-northeastern-pennsylvania-brain-bee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120246\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of Scranton holds its 25th annual Northeastern Pennsylvania Brain Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Saturday, the University of Scranton held its 25th annual Northeastern Pennsylvania Brain Bee in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lackawanna County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Offering high school students a chance to test their knowledge on topics from emotions to stress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">11 students participated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Muyan Liu, a junior at a high school in Philadelphia, made the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Muyan hopes to pursue neuroscience and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, the University of Scranton held its 25th annual Northeastern Pennsylvania Brain Bee in Lackawanna County. Offering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[201,56845,28,30,29,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-120246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-lackawanna-county","9":"tag-national-brain-bee","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news","13":"tag-university-of-scranton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120246","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=120246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}