Age is Just a Number! Indo-American Teen Tanishq Abraham Graduates at 15

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Indian-American origin Tanishq Abraham is a child prodigy and that was confirmed three years ago itself when the 15-year-old received three college degrees. Three years later down the lane, Abraham has added yet another feather to his cap by graduating from UC Davis in biomedical engineering. The teenager is all set to start his doctorate now.

 

Tanishq Abraham received his degree on Father’s Day, just a few days after he turned 15. Tanishq’s mother Taji Abraham said, “It was the best Father’s Day gift for my husband and also my dad.” Taji, who is herself a doctor of veterinary sciences said that their family was proud of Tanishq’s achievements. As for Tanishq’s father, he is a software engineer. In fact, Tanishq’s grandparents too are both retired veterinary medical PhD doctors.

 

There has been no stopping for Tanishq even after he received his graduation degree. Tanishq and his team presented their senior design project at the grand rounds at the UC Davis Medical Center. He also drove down to Southern California for a biomedical engineering conference wherein he presented his engineering senior design project. Tanishq even attended a three-day crash course at UCD Entrepreneurship Academy with other 45 participants.

 

Flipping back, Tanishq’s parents reminisce how it’s always been eventful for them with their son being a prodigy. The Abrahams had discovered that Tanishq’s uniqueness and realized he was “a few years ahead when he was in kindergarten and it just went from there. He was later enrolled in the American River Community College after he had cracked math courses offered by Stanford University’s Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) in less than six months, all at the tender age of five.

 

At six, he took online high school and college level classes in subjects such as chemistry, paleontology, biology, and geology, and at the age of seven, he enrolled at American, completing courses in Geology and Astronomy. He would be on the top of his class even then.

 

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[Dushyantsinh Chavda]

Generation being faster and faster, decade by decade. [Sorry for poor English, in advanced. ]

[tao]

6 minutes ago, Dushyantsinh Chavda said:

Sorry for poor English

No need. Your message couldn't be clearer.  Message given and understood is communication -- even when no words are exchanged.  Often times, message gets lost in the noise of words.  Succinct messages are often to the point. Thank you.

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10 hours ago, Dushyantsinh Chavda said:

Generation being faster and faster, decade by decade. [Sorry for poor English, in advanced. ]

 

I don't believe that "wonder-children" are a phenomenon of modern times. Just happens that a gifted kid might get more opportunity in a civilized environment. What were the educational possibilities of a child, son of a tribal hunter in the Old Ages, and even in the 18th century, of a peasant working under feudal conditions, or the son of a factory or a coal mine worker of 19th century? The answer is NO POSSIBILITIES! Only future for them was to start working at age 10 or earlier, marry at 16 and die at 30.

Even today endemic poverty, hunger and ignorance "kills" an uncountable number of potentially great talents which never get the opportunity to develop. Just think about how many of those millions of kids starving and growing up in extreme poverty had potentially an IQ of 140 only to became ignorant inmates of some refugee camp surviving on a daily ration of 800 Kcal, ultimately with the same expectation as their caveman counterpart!