Here's what students are saying about Bright Lights in the Lab. For two weeks in July, our science labs became research stations where students meet a variety of invertebrates and learn about the basic principles of neuroscience that makes us who we are.

Find out what the teachers have to say about Bright Lights in the Lab. For two weeks in July, our science labs became research stations where students meet a variety of invertebrates and learn about the basic principles of neuroscience that makes us who we are.

Find out what students & educators have to say about Bright Lights in the Lab. For two weeks in July, our science labs became research stations where students meet a variety of invertebrates and learn about the basic principles of neuroscience that makes us who we are.

Imagine watching the electrical pulses travelling in your muscles, or hooking up an earthworm to a rig and recording action potentials in its nerves. You can blow little wisps of air at a cockroach and learn why they are so hard to catch by monitoring their nervous system, do micro dissections of snail brains to look at the orange neurons inside and see them work as the snails learn.

Bright Lights in the Lab enables high school students to experience the full research cycle: conduct literature searches; organize & execute research plans; deliver a report on their findings; meet, collaborate and work with current researchers and academics from the University.

In 2011 the Firefly Foundation was proud to sponsor the Toronto Brain Bee. We asked the top three competitors to talk to us about what inspires them about the brain. We followed Jessica as she accompanied Sakina Rizvi (PhD Candidate in the Kennedy Lab, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Neuroscience at the University of Toronto) throughout an exploration on how depression affects our brain.

In 2011 the Firefly Foundation was proud to sponsor the Toronto Brain Bee. We asked the top three competitors to talk to us about what inspires them about the brain. Soohyun assisted in Dr. Feng's laboratory in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto.

The Firefly Foundation is the proud sponsor of the 2011 Toronto Brain Bee that took place at the University of Toronto on March 25/11. 62 students from 17 high schools participated. This video captures the excitement of the event and celebrates the top three competitors. (file: Brain-Bee_1280x720_110614_3000kbps.mp4)

made for a fundraising dance show for Toronto French School

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