Tanishq Abraham was born in Sacramento, California in 2003. According to his Wikipedia page, he was 5 years old when he completed the math courses in five grades (kindergarten to 4th grade) at Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) in less than 6 months. He graduated high school in 2014 and had just graduated from American River College last Wednesday, May 20, with 3 associate college degrees.
Tanishq and his sister, Tiara, are among the youngest member of MENSA, the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world.
Read more about him here
I've heard about this guy on the news once, but I didn't know who he was. Thank you for making this post :D I did some more research and I found that on top of completing a college education at such an early age, he has also made significant contributions to astronomy. In 2011, he became the youngest person to discover astronomical bodies and events. He scanned hundreds of NASA/Kepler images and helped to find two Supernovae, an exoplanet candidate and a solar storm in 2011. His identifications were confirmed by other volunteers. Tanishq did similar identification projects with MoonZoo & MoonMappers. He presented his results at the NASA Lunar Science Conference 2012.
ReplyDeleteHere's Tanishq Abraham giving a TED talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq3FopGY6Fc