Tag: PRODIGY

Today's 12-year-olds don't just know more than we do -- they're also a lot richer than we are. Case in point: seventh grader Alex Miller, from San Jose. Alex, you see, recently discovered a critical security flaw in the latest versions of Firefox -- something to do with an overflow bug in 'document.write.' That may sound like Chinese to most of the human population (minus the Chinese), but it ...

Eleven-year old Moshe Kai Cavalin wants to be an Olympic martial arts master and an actor -- as soon as he has proven the existence of wormholes. The California youngster has already obtained his Associates degree in astrophysics with a 4.0 GPA. FOX News recently reported on this real-life astro boy, and while he's not an android, the East Los Angeles Community College pre-teen stands at 4 foot, 7 ...

Imagine what would happen if you took a kid ten times smarter than Doogie Howser, made him a scientist instead of a doctor, and then made him more concerned with helping the world than getting dates. The t12-year-old Oregonian has invented a solar cell that is being described as a 3-D cell (though we're still not exactly sure what that means). The new cells absorb visible light and ultraviolet ...

Jon Penn is a freak of nature, and we mean that in the nicest way possible. At 11-years-old, Penn has become his school's network administrator, taking over the job from the previous admin who left suddenly last year. One could call into question the qualifications of Penn's predecessor, however, considering the major clean-up job the adolescent wonder has on his hands. The school -- the Victory ...