He is 12 years old and has already completed his high school and college education

The first months of the coronavirus pandemic meant most people had more free time than ever before and very few options to take advantage of it. Taking advantage of the confinement, Mike Wimmer, a 12-year-old boy living in North Carolina, stepped up his academic and school activity beyond his schedule. Now a year later he is preparing to graduate from the school secondary and in the the university in the same week.

Wimmer completed four years of school in one: two years of high school and a two-year technical degree as a robotics engineer. He will graduate from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on May 21 and Concord Academy High School on May 28, where he is the top student.

According to his father, it all started when he was 18 months old, when Mike was given an iPad to play with. With this element, the child prodigy learned a lot and discovered that he was gifted, because at the age of five he already knew how to program. According to his family, the miner sat in front of the computer after finishing class while still in kindergarten and from there he created applications.

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The little one assures us that he is a completely normal child, with a common life like that of others, who likes to play sports and play video games. But he was born with a privileged intelligence that he used to make his dreams come true, from the youngest ones like leaving high school at 12, to becoming a robotics engineer, a career he pursued around the same time and led with the better. ranks. And it is that thanks to his indisputable learning ability, he was allowed to enter the University at the age of 10 and finish it in just two because he obtained the best marks.

The young man never took any additional lessons beyond those provided by acquaintances where he attended primary and secondary school, although Mike saw many tutorials on the Internet on different topics. His family even say the boy also speaks several languages ​​as he studied them online. “I am like a sponge, I take in knowledge very quickly, I have an ease to study. I have always been drawn to the science of technology, I am a very complete student and I do exceptionally well in all subjects. subjects, ”said the genius boy.