The youngest graduate in the 175\u002Dyear history of the University of Ottawa has earned a bachelor of science degree.
She adds: “I would like to hope that it doesn’t affect how people see me.”
Her honour’s research project used open-source fMRI data to examine differences in how right-handed, left-handed and ambidextrous individuals formed functional connections in their cerebellums, the part of the brain controlling motor functions. An educational psychologist later pronounced Anthaea-Grace “profoundly gifted” with an IQ of 147. Hers was in the top .10 per cent of all IQ scores.
Johanna contacted 42 school districts before finding one near Boston that would enroll her daughter in Grade 2. “I definitely did a lot of advocating,” she says. Born in Jamaica, Johanna came to Canada as a young girl and grew up in Burlington, Ont., where her own mother taught math. She holds a law degree from Temple University, a master’s in biotechnology and a doctorate in higher education.Article contentAt five, Anthaea-Grace read the entire Harry Potter series. In Grade 4, she vaulted ahead when testing showed she was working at a Grade 8 level. She took her first high school calculus course at seven.
Joanna Dennis, left, describes herself as a frequent advocate for the advancement of her daughter’s academic career.Although her accelerated path has been difficult at times — “people have preconceived notions of what a person my age acts like, talks like, looks like,” Dennis says — she doesn’t believe she has missed out on anything. Quite the opposite: She considers her life vastly richer than that of the average 12-year-old.
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