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  • High Schooler Becomes Educator: Young Fencer's Neuro-Revolution Goes International
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    High Schooler Becomes Educator: Young Fencer's Neuro-Revolution Goes International
    • December 28, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    [Updated February 2024] There’s one thing that beats inspiring kids to take up neuroscience: Watching them not only catch the spark but pass it along! High schooler Supriya Nair is our case in point. Through scientific outreach using our SpikerBox, she has already ignited the interest of hundreds of her peers who got to see and […]
  • DIY Neuroscience at 2022 USA Fencing Nationals: Where Science Meets Foil & Epee
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    DIY Neuroscience at 2022 USA Fencing Nationals: Where Science Meets Foil & Epee
    • July 15, 2022
    • by Jelena Ciric
    What do neuroscience and fencing have in common? This was a question asked—and answered!— by Supriya Nair, high-schooler and neurofencer from Washington State. After winning WA State Science Fair two years in a row using our gear, this young scientist took the opportunity to present her neurofencing research at US Fencing Nationals in Minneapolis—and volunteered […]
  • Young Neurofencer Wins Washington Science Fair (2nd Year in a Row) Using SpikerBox
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    Young Neurofencer Wins Washington Science Fair (2nd Year in a Row) Using SpikerBox
    • May 2, 2022
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Swift and agile musclework and bladework is all you need to be a good fencer. Or is it? As it turns out thanks to Supriya Nair, an eighth-grader from Redmond, WA, the brain and heart have their fair share in it too! The young scientist’s research project on neurofencing just won her yet another first place […]
  • Can Neuroscience Help You Fence Better? Middle-School Scientist Wins State Science Fair Using SpikerBox
    Experiment
    Can Neuroscience Help You Fence Better? Middle-School Scientist Wins State Science Fair Using SpikerBox
    • May 10, 2021
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Every fencer will hear it countless times: warm-ups are a MUST. Do them and they’ll bump up your performance. Skip them and you may end up hurting yourself. But not every fencer will ask why! Supriya Nair, a busy sixth-grader from Redmond, WA, decided to conduct an experiment and find out what the correlation is between […]

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