Brain Bee 2023 Results

Congratulations to the participants of the 13th annual St. Louis Area Brain Bee! We had 54 competitors from 15 high schools. The top 10 finishers were Sanjay Adireddy (1st place, Ladue High School), Gaayathri Binoj, Chinmay Kumar, Ankush Vasireddy, Anthony Zhao, Rebekah Blackmon, Elizabeth Blackmon, Matthew Awad, Abby Moriarty and Diep Tran. The WU undergraduate coordinators were Arjun Nair, Sriharsha Gonuguntla, Daleep Grewal, and Jake Joseph.

Brain Bee 2022 Results

Congratulations to the participants of the 12th annual St. Louis Area Brain Bee! We had 47 competitors from 23 high schools. The top 10 finishers were Varun Vasireddy (1st place, Fort Zumwalt South High School), Chinmay Kumar, Ankush Vasireddy, Rebekah Blackmon, Keertana Yalamanchili, Gaayathri Binoj, Sivani Vasireddy, Matthew Awad, Kopal Kumar, and Vincent Lim. The WU undergraduate coordinators were Adrian Li and Jake Joseph.

Brain Bee 2021 Results

Congratulations to the top 10 finishers in the 2021 St. Louis Area Brain Bee! We had 52 competitors from 15 high schools. The top 10 finishers were Rohan Rao (1st place, Rock Bridge High School, Columbia MO), Varun Vasireddy, Shriya Koneru, Kesava Viswanadha, Chinmay Kumar, Ankush Vasireddy, Soham Saraf, Keertana Yalamanchili, Aneesh Batchu, and Aryan Kalluvila.  Ladue High School had the team with the most points. The WU undergraduate coordinators were Alicia Yang and Jake Joseph.

Brain Bee 2020 Results

Congratulations to the top 11 finishers in the 2020 St. Louis Area Brain Bee. 52 students from 20 high schools competed. From left to right: Christopher Ye, Ankit Choudhury (Co-President, WU Synapse), Kesava Viswanadha, Varun Vasireddy, Sohan Saraf, Rohan Rao, Ro Sandoval (SLU Neuroscience), Keerthana Madireddi, Siddharth Rana (Co-President, WU Synapse), Shriya Koneru, Shelei Pan, Erik Herzog (WU, Professor of Biology), Feroz Khan, Sriharsha Gonuguntla (2020 SLABB Winner, Marquette High School), Fahim Choudhury (WU 2020 SLABB Coordinator), Alicia Yang (WU 2020 SLABB Coordinator). Not pictured: Rohith Ryali.

Photo credits: Rehan Choudhury

Brain Bee 2019 Results

Congratulations to the top 12 finishers in the 2019 St. Louis Area Brain Bee. 58 students from 29 high schools competed. From left to right: Rincon Jagarlamudi (winner from Marquette High School), Aanjaneyaa Venkataraman, Shelei Pan, Aditya Kondepudi, Grant Manwaring, Rohith Ryali, Shriya Koneru, Ankit Choudhury (Brain Bee Coordinator,) Kesava Viswanadha, Rohan Rao, Christopher Ye, Sriharsha Gonuguntla, Feroz Khan, Siddharth Rana (WU 2018 SLABB Coordinator) and Eric Song (WU Synapse President), Erik Herzog (WU, Professor of Biology).
Photo credits: Rehan Choudhury


Brain Bee 2018 Results

Congratulations to the top 10 finishers in the 2018 St. Louis Area Brain Bee. 35 students from 15 high schools competed. From left to right: Rohith Ryali, Shriya Koneru, Seunju Lee, Keerthana Madireddi, Trey Wang, Varun Shenoy, Rincon Jagarlamudi, Sriya Bandi, Shelei Pan, Akhil Kondepudi (winner from Ladue High School), Jenny Lin (WU 2018 SLABB Coordinator).


Brain Bee 2017 Results

Congratulations to the top 10 finishers in the 2017 St. Louis Area Brain Bee. 54 students from 44 high schools competed. From right to left: Madison Kassoff and William Pan (WU Synapse reps), Erik Herzog (SLABB Director), Nidhi Bhaskar (winner from MICDS high school), Akhil Kondepudi, Shelei Pan, Unsun Lee, Neelansh Bute, Penny Zhang, Adina Cazacle, Trey Wang, Tejas Shekhar, and Nathan Lu, Jasmine Brown (WU Synapse rep), and Laura Motard and Guhan Iyer (WU 2017 SLABB Coordinators).


Brain Bee 2016 Results

Congratulations to the top 10 finishers in the 2016 St. Louis Area Brain Bee. 47 students from 29 high schools competed. From left to right: Ilakkia Anabayan (winner from Marquette High School), Nihi Bhaskar, Shoshana Williams, Arianna Blatt, Tara Suresh, William Aldrich, Brittany Krafft, Unsun Lee, Elizabeth Hamilton and Varun Shenoy.

Brain Bee 2015 Results

Congratulations to Rounak Bera from Lindbergh High School, the 2015 winner of the St. Louis Area Brain Bee (25 competitors from 22 high schools).


Brain Bee 2014 Results

Congratulations to the top 10 finishers from the 2014 St. Louis Area Brain Bee (from right to left, out of 51 competitors): Sai Allu (1st place), Yunli Chu (2nd), Debolina Kanjilal (3rd), Xavier Islam (4th), Jordan Gittemeier (5th, not shown), Antoine Watkins (6th), Maloree Khan (8th), Kantima Thanavaro (10th), William Aldrich (9th), Emmie Morrison (7th), Erik Herzog (Professor of Biology).


Brain Bee 2013 Results

Congratulations to the top 10 finishers from the 2014 St. Louis Area Brain Bee (from right to left, out of 51 competitors): Sai Allu (1st place), Yunli Chu (2nd), Debolina Kanjilal (3rd), Xavier Islam (4th), Jordan Gittemeier (5th, not shown), Antoine Watkins (6th), Maloree Khan (8th), Kantima Thanavaro (10th), William Aldrich (9th), Emmie Morrison (7th), Erik Herzog (Professor of Biology).


Brain Bee 2012 Results

Congratulations to the top 3 finishers from the 2012 St. Louis Area Brain Bee. First Place. Nathan Ng (John Burroughs High School). Nathan placed in the top 30 at Nationals! Second Place. Smitha Milli (Francis Howell North High School). Second person from the left. Third Place. Malarvannan Poornaashri (Marquette High School). Third person from the left. Also shown: Andrew Westbrook (Graduate student in Psychology) and Erik Herzog (Professor of Biology) We had 15 competitors from 14 high schools!


Brain Bee 2011 Results

Congratulations to the top 3 from the St. Louis Area Brain Bee 2011. From left to right, Robinique Love (3rd place; Clyde Miller Career Academy, St. Louis, MO), Laura Cooper (2nd place; John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO) and Aishwarya Pastapur (1st place; Glenwood High School, Chatham, IL).