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We have heard a lot about child prodigies or gifted children. Although, most of them\u00a0are gifted, some have been lucky to get a favorable environment. Behind the\u00a0limelight, these young achievers try to balance their lives. They try to keep their feet\u00a0firmly on the ground while aiming high in life.<\/p>\n
Here is a bit about some young achievers:<\/p>\n
Wasik Farhan-Roopkotha (Age 6)<\/strong><\/p>\n Wasik Farhan-Roopkotha, termed as a child prodigy from Bangladesh, began\u00a0computing when he was seven months old. By age four, he already knew how to\u00a0program and download game emulators. He has played more than 700 games and\u00a0mastered video games like Metal Gear Solid and Modern Warfare. He aims to\u00a0become a computer expert, and work for a big computing firm.<\/p>\n Zoya Ball (Age 7)<\/strong><\/p>\n Zoya Ball snagged\u00a0the title of the youngest person to create a full-version mobile\u00a0application video game. The app created in Bootstrap programming language helps children aged 12 to 16 understand complex mathematics. Studying at\u00a0Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, in West Philadelphia,\u00a0she picked up the tricks at Harambee\u2019s 48-week after-school program offered by\u00a0STEMnasium Learning Academy.<\/p>\n Marko Casalan (Age 8)<\/strong><\/p>\n A boy from Macedonia, Marko Casalan is the youngest Microsoft-certified computer\u00a0programmer. Raised by parents who run a private school specializing in computer\u00a0studies, Marko was able to read and write at the age of two. An administrator with\u00a0Microsoft at the age of six, he aims to be a computer scientist and develop a new\u00a0operational system.<\/p>\n Pranav Kalyan (Age 9)<\/strong><\/p>\n Introduced to the world of computers at the age of two, Pranav Kalyan is the\u00a0youngest Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. Capable of solving complex\u00a0problems in integral and differential calculus, he began writing small software\u00a0programs when he was six years old. A fourth grader at Willow Elementary School in\u00a0Agoura Hills, California, he passed the MCTS test in ASP.NET Framework 3.5 in\u00a0January 2013.<\/p>\n Lim Ding Wen (Age 9)<\/strong><\/p>\n The person behind the Doodle Kids app, Lim Ding Wen became the youngest iPhone\u00a0developer at age 9. Hailing from Singapore, he can develop programs in Java,\u00a0JavaScript, Action Script, and Objective-C. He rewrote the Doodle Kids for the iPhone\u00a0and then Android platforms. Right now he is working on an iPad arcade game,\u00a0Invader War 2.<\/p>\n Mahmoud Wael (Age 14)<\/strong><\/p>\n At 14 years of age, Mahmoud Wael is qualified to teach C++ in master\u2019s courses.\u00a0He learned to read, write, and speak English in just three months. Born in Cairo,\u00a0Egypt, Wael possesses an IQ of 155, and is a Cisco Certified Networking Professional\u00a0and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert. He dreams to win a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n We wish them all the best!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have heard a lot about child prodigies or gifted children. Although, most of them\u00a0are gifted, some have been lucky to get a favorable environment. Behind the\u00a0limelight, these young achievers try to balance their lives. They try to keep their feet\u00a0firmly on the ground while aiming high in life. Here is a bit about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}