Tanishq Abraham
Tanishq Abraham
Tanishq Abraham, is a child genius, media personality and role model. He is a third generation Indian-American born in Sacramento, California. His father Bijou Abraham, a software engineer and mother Taji Abraham, a veterinarian, were immigrants to the United States of America from Kerala, India. Tanishq's younger 10 year old sister, Tiara Abraham is also a child genius who like her brother is a member of MENSA and began her first college campus classes at seven years old. [3]
His parents, especially his mother, noticed that even as a baby he loved children’s books and by the age of two, he could remember and recall everything he heard and read, including how to tell the time on the clock.
Accomplishments
At 4, Tanishq became a member of MENSA To become a member the only qualification is a score in the top 2 percentile of the general population on a standardized intelligence test.
At 5, he completed all 5 grades of the math courses offered by Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) At 6, he took high school and college courses in chemistry, paleontology, biology, and geology. [3]
At 7, he took Geology and Astronomy courses in the American River College in Sacramento and cleared the courses with “A” grades. At 8, he was a founding vice-president for an Astronomy club at his college. At 10 years old, he received his high school diploma. At age 11 he received associate degrees in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, General Science and Foreign Language Studies, with a Grade Point Average (GPA) score of 4.0 from American River College. [3]
While 7 he also completed an online chemistry course at UC Berkeley. At 9, he became a member of the two-year college honor society Phi Theta Kappa, and at age 10, he was elected Vice-President of Communications for the 2013-2014 term and re-elected for 2014 to 2015. At 9, he became the youngest person to present at a NASA conference. [3]
At 9 he also gave a TED Talk and appeared on Conan O'Brien Presents: Team Coco. [3]
Future
Tanishq aspires to become a doctor, a medical researcher, a Nobel Prize Winner and President of the United States of America. At university for his bachelor's degree Tanishq intends to study biomedical engineering and achieve his medical degree at the age of 18. [8]