You Got a Brain, Or Nah?

By Sophie Nelson
The core course on July 24th at the Shields Science Center was the Brain Show! The Brain Show is an educational game show that tests students all around knowledge. It gives students and proctors an interactive experience while having fun.

The Brain Show host invited up to fifteen students in total for each round. There were three teams with five people on each. The students were chosen by proctors, program directors, and RAs. They passed out cards to random students and the students got to keep the cards after they went up on stage.

In total, there were six rounds of the Brain Show. Five rounds were only students and one round was proctors only. Seventy five PCC students got the opportunity to test their knowledge in multiple categories.

The categories of the Brain Show were math, language arts, presidents, zoology, music, music theory, pop culture, history, geography, food, science, foreign languages, movies, and television. Some questions were complex and others were very easy. These topics tested students’ trivia knowledge and most were very hard questions. Along with questions, there was another catch.

If your team got a question right, then you had to do a dance that went to a specific song. Each round, the Brain Show host would introduce three new dances to memorize. During the last student round, in order to win, the team had to do a dance from every round. When doing the dances, every person in the group had to do them at 100%. If people messed up, the team wouldn’t get points, making the game harder.

The Brain Show is one of the most memorable core courses at PCC, and hopefully it’ll continue every year.