Local Students Compete in Nationwide Presidents Day Contest: Videos Demonstrate Impressive Feat

Local students recently demonstrated impressive memory feats and focus for a national Presidents Day video contest. They quickly recited from memory all 44 U.S. presidents in order, while performing other tasks and blocking out intense distractions. The contest is designed to encourage kids across the country to create videos that demonstrate the memory and focus skills they improved with LearningRx brain training.

"This is one of the first things we have students master in our brain training programs," says Michael Ginsberg of LearningRx Marlboro and Red Bank. "It quickly strengthens long-term memory, attention and other cognitive skills, and it also gives a big boost of self-confidence. Many of these kids have struggled in school for years, so when they can quickly learn all the presidents they feel smart and confident, often for the first time ever."

Eleven-year-old Kailyn Musella of Marlboro is one of locals who competed.  She played a piano while reading sheet music and reciting the presidents of the United States.  Kailyn won 1st Place in our local Presidents Day Video contest.  You can watch her video here: http://youtu.be/zpOsANJ6gK8

The national winner of this year’s Presidents Day contest is 13-year-old Bryson DeVries of Peewee Valley, Kentucky. He recited all 44 presidents while riding a unicycle AND dribbling a basketball – all while his family threw things at him! You can watch his impressive video, along with the other 60 incredible entries, here: www.learningrx.com/presidents-day-video-contest.

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LearningRx brain training specializes in treating the cause – not the symptoms – of learning struggles. The programs’ game-like exercises and one-on-one trainer-to-student ratios provide guaranteed dramatic improvement in as little as 12 to 24 weeks. With more than 80 centers across the country, LearningRx brain training can help anyone – from 5 to 85 – increase the speed, power or function of their brain.