Tanishq Abraham

12-year-old Child Prodigy Tanishq Abraham Accepted Into Uc Davis

... including Stanford University, where he took the math courses offered by their Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) and completed five grades in six months. Abraham also finished an online chemistry course from UC Berkeley and graduated with straight A’s and three degrees from Sacramento’s American River college in May of last year. Abraham has even gone on to speak at public events, becoming the youngest person to attend NASA Ames, a major NASA research center based in the Silicon Valley, and speak and present a poster at NASA’s conference in July 2012. He has also been invited to speak at a TEDx conclave that was held in Sacramento in 2013. Dr. Taji Abraham, Abraham’s mother and a UC Davis alum, believes that her son’s profound intelligence has not interfered with his outgoing personality and that this has been a rewarding experience, with only a few minor challenges. “In terms of social and emotional issues, he is a very social [and] mature child, he is like any other child,” said Abraham’s mother. “For his ...

11-year-old Indian American Tanishq Abraham Graduates From College With Three Degrees

... this year to graduate from a Sacramento college with three degrees,” and possibly the youngest in River College’s 60-year-history. However, the overachiever underplayed his accomplishment, telling the news organization that it wasn’t “much of a big thing for me.” Abraham walked across the stage wearing a “rainbow-colored scarf knit by his 82-year-old grandmother and decked-out cap with reference to ‘Toy Story’s’ mantra ‘To Infinity and Beyond,’” the NBC report said. Earlier this year, the child prodigy was a contestant in the Lifetime show Child Genius, which was won by fellow Indian American Vanya Shivashankar. Abraham was placed seventh overall. He was also featured in the premier episode of the PRODIGIES show, by THNKR. Abraham, who was born in Sacramento on June 18, 2003, to veterinary Dr. Taji Abraham and software engineer Bijou Abraham, told the American Bazaar in a February interview that he wants to be the president of the United States. His professional goal is become ...

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... undated frame from video provided by KOVR-TV, Tanishq Abraham, 12, looks into a microscope in a lab at American River College in Sacramento, Calif., during an interview about his recent graduation from community college and beginning his university education this fall. He's been. The Associated Press. In this recent but undated frame from video provided by KOVR-TV, Tanishq Abraham, 12, looks into a microscope in a lab at American River College in Sacramento, Calif., during an interview about his recent graduation from community college and beginning his university education this fall. He's been accepted to the University of California, Davis, and UC Santa Cruz. He says he plans on studying biomedical engineering and becoming a doctor and medical researcher by the time he turns 18.(KOVR-TV via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT TV OUT. In this recent but undated frame ...

Sacramento Prodigy Competes In ‘child Genius’ Reality Show

... people in their peer group.”. Hesling, who has produced shows like “Atlanta Exes” and “Top Gear,” said finding the contestants was a little bit of a different process than for most reality television shows. “Child Genius” recruited at everything from robotics clubs to schools for gifted children. “These aren’t the sort of people who want to be in a reality show,” Hesling said. “We had to approach the parents, who are the gate-keepers for the kids, and tell them that this was going to be a serious series about families raising gifted children.”. Tanishq’s mother Taji Abraham and father Bijou said they were concerned at first about a show pitting their son against other kids, but it ended up being a fun experience. Tanishq is also a very busy kid, attending college, participating in the San Francisco Boys Chorus and working on coding projects. “We talked about it a lot,” Bijou said, “and we had to turn down other opportunities to be a part of this.”. A significant ...

11-year-old Tanishq Abraham Graduates From California College

... From California College. Copy this code to your website or blog. An 11-year-old California boy donned a cap and gown on Wednesday — to receive a college degree. Tanishq Abraham is the youngest person to graduate from American River College in Sacramento, California, this year, according to NBC affiliate KCRA. And he may be the youngest person to graduate from the school in its 60-year history. "The assumption is that he's the all-time youngest," American River College spokesman Scott Crow told NBC Bay Area on Thursday. "But we don't have all the archives to completely confirm. He was definitely the youngest this year.". Read more at NBC Bay Area. And yet Abraham told KCRA the milestone wasn't "much of a big thing for me.". Abraham, who joined MENSA when he was only four years old, was home-schooled after feeling "bored" in his classes, according to NBC Bay Area. He graduated high school last June at age 10, after completing California's early-exit high school exam. He even received a congratulatory message from President Barack Obama and several California officials. His mother, Taji Abraham, said he has always been ahead of the class. ...

Indian American Child Prodigy Tiara Abraham, 10, Releases Debut Album

... too, as he has a good musical ear, and he can tell the goods and bads of recording.”. Tanishq performed in the San Francisco Boys Choir for about five years. Tiara is at the moment enrolled at the American River College in Sacramento, California — the same school where her brother graduated from in May 2015. After college, she has big plans. “When I grow up, I want to be a famous soprano classical singer,” she said. Her role models are opera singer Renée Fleming and Kathleen Battle, an operatic light lyric soprano. Her other favorite singers include Adele, Celine Dion and Josh Groban. Tiara Abraham, with her brother Tanishq. Asked what she does in her free time, Abraham said she plays with her brother.”We play Wii, card games and watch Bollywood shows and movies,” said. “The last film we watched from Bollywood was Sultan, [a Salman Khan-starrer],” she added. Both Abraham siblings are members of Mensa, the high-IQ society and both are among the youngest Americans in the group. Tiara, in fact, became a member of the exclusive club at the age of 4. On the test, Tanishq scored 99.9 percentile and Tiara scored 99. In an interview with The Bazaar after his graduation last ...

What All Those Whiz Kids Getting Into Elite Colleges At The Age Of 12 Have In Common

... 11-year-old Carson Huey-You who went to Texas Christian University, veritable child prodigies like Sho Yano who went to Loyola University Chicago at the age of nine, and loads more popping up every year from all sorts of different backgrounds and ethnicities. They share one characteristic. They were all homeschooled. Shuler, the Cornell-bound preteen, was completely educated by his mother, who holds an aerospace engineering doctorate and quit her own career to focus on him—giving him lessons in every subject, except for some (like chemistry) that Shuler was able to teach himself, according to a local news outlet. Abraham’s trajectory is almost the exact same, with his mother abandoning her veterinary Ph D program to take up homeschooling him full-time. Often, if not taught by their parents, they were at least shepherded from opportunity to opportunity by them—like 12-year-old UC Berkeley student Kiavash Garakani , whose parents started driving him to community college classes when he was eight. Stories such as these would seem to ...

12-year-old Calif. Boy Chooses Uc Davis

... who graduated in May 2004, according to school spokeswoman Julia Ann Easley. Video 10-Year-Old Earns H. S. Diploma, "Came Out Smart". The brainy pre-teen will study bio-engineering, his mother Taji Abraham told NBC Bay Area on Monday. Tanishq has already racked up two years of credit while studying at American River College, where he earned three associates degrees in math and physical science, general science and language studies, enabling him to enter UC Davis as a junior. 11-Year-Old Graduates College, Plans to Become a Doctor. Tanishq Abraham wraps up studies at American River College with his sights now set on becoming a doctor. (Published Thursday, May 21, 2015). Tanishq was also accepted to UC Santa Cruz, but his family, which lives in the Sacramento area, chose the closer school in Davis. Abraham said she didn't want to send the pre-pubescent boy to live in the dorms by himself. This way, she can drop off Tanishq on campus, run some errands and come back for him. "Location, location, location," Tanishq said as his main reason for choosing the UC school closest to his home. Winter Wonderland! Snow Covers Bay Area Peaks, Roads. Tanishq's ...

Student, 10, Member Of High Iq Society, Graduates High School

... Photo courtesy of Bijou and Taji Abraham. Tanishq Abraham, 10, of Sacramento became one of the youngest high school graduates Sunday. Tanishq Abraham, 10, of Sacramento became one of the youngest high school graduates Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Bijou and Taji Abraham). Maya Srikrishnan. Sacramento student, 10, graduates from high school. A 10-year-old boy from Sacramento recently became one of the youngest people to graduate from high school. Tanishq Abraham successfully met the state requirements to graduate and earned a 4.0 grade-point average, receiving his diploma at a private ceremony with family and friends Sunday. “We wanted to have it like a typical graduation ceremony, but of course it was different because he was the only student,” his mother, Taji, said. He even received a congratulatory letter from President Obama. “I feel happy and proud of myself that I finished high school,” Abraham said. ...