[NTA] FW: Britain's 9 year old twins bound for college.

From: "Ericsson, Aprille J. (GSFC-5560)" <aprille.j.ericsson@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:41:51 -0500
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 Britain's Brainiest Family is Black and Has 9-Year-Old High School-Bound Twins
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Paula and Peter Imafidon are just like any other 9-year-olds. They love 
laughing, playing on the computer and fighting with each other. What sets these 
twins apart from their peers, though, is that they are, hands down, prodigies 
who are about to enter high school and make British history as the youngest to 
do so.


The precocious London-based tykes, known as the "Wonder Twins," floored 
academics a year ago when they aced University of Cambridge 's advanced 
mathematics exam. They are the youngest students to ever pass the test.
The future little scholars' father, Chris, and mother, Ann, immigrated to 
Britain from Nigeria more than 30 years ago and have actually been down this 
prodigy route before with their three older children, who are also 
overachievers.
The couple's oldest daughter, Anne-Marie, is now 20, but at age 13, she won a 
British government scholarship to take undergraduate courses at John s Hopkins 
University in Baltimore . Christiana, 17, their other daughter, is the youngest 
student ever to study at the undergraduate level in any British University at 
the age of 11. Youngest daughter, Samantha, now 12, passed two rigorous high 
school-level mathematics and statistics exams at the age of 6. She mentored the 
twins to pass their own math secondary school test when they were also 6.
Even with all of this, the proud dad denies that there is any particular genius 
in his family. He does credit his children's success to the Excellence in 
Education program for disadvantaged inner-city youth. "Every child is a 
genius," he said. "Once you identify the talent of a child and put them in the 
environment that will nurture that talent, then the sky is the limit. Look at 
Tiger Woods or the Williams sisters -- they were nurtured. You can never rule 
anything out with them. The competition between the two of them makes them 
excel in anything they do."
The darling duo are competitive to say the least, and this is what fuels them 
to out-achieve each other. Paula said, "I am excited to pass, but I should have 
got higher than Peter."
As far as career paths Paula says she wants to be a math teacher, while Peter 
aspires to be prime minister one day.
All it takes is a dream....
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