Moshe kai cavalin biography

Moshe Kai Cavalin got a community college degree at 11, and has not stopped his prodigious path since, which also includes published books.
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Moshe Kai Cavalin, 17, has 2 degrees, flies planes, works at NASA.

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“Genius is just a word, it’s like an IQ, it’s a number that’s created by people that only classify with one point, and they ignore everything else that makes the individual. I don’t like being called a genius and I don’t want to be a number,” says Moshe Kai Cavalin. “What I do is try to get wisdom through knowledge and I think practicing wisdom is much better than being a genius.”

17-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin was born in Los Angeles, California, on Valentine’s Day in the year of the Tiger (1998). An only child, his mother Shu Chen Chien and father Yosef Cavalin remember that he was always a fast learner. When he was 4 months old, Moshe Kai pointed to a jet in the sky and said his first word, the Chinese word for airplane. (Moshe Kai’s mother is from Taiwan and his father is from Brazil.)

From a young age, Moshe Kai’s parents encouraged him to develop the two sides of his brain, incorporating lessons in both science and art. Moshe Kai began learning how to read and do math when he was 2 years old. His mom and dad also had him learn marti

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BOSTON - Moshe Kai Cavalin has two university degrees, but he's too young to vote. He flies airplanes, but he's too young to drive a car alone.

Life is filled with contrasts for Cavalin, a 17-year-old from San Gabriel, California, who has dashed by major milestones as his age seems to lag behind. He graduated from community college at age 11. Four years later, he had a bachelor's in math from the University of California, Los Angeles.

This year, he started online classes to get a master's in cybersecurity through the Boston area's Brandeis University. He decided to postpone that pursuit for a couple of terms, though, while he helps NASA develop surveillance technology for airplanes and drones.

Between all that, he's racked up an exhausting list of extracurricular feats. He is, in his own words, a martial arts champion, having studied kung fu from an early age. He just published his second book, drawing on his experience being bullied and stories he's heard from others. He plans to have his airplane pilot's license by the year's end. At his family's home near Los Angeles, he h

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Moshe Kai Cavalin, 14, son of Chinese Shu Chen Chien and Brazilian Joseph Cavalin poses for a picture at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on March 26,2012. Cavalin studies Math with a scholarship at the UCLA and expects to finish his college degree later in 2012. He entered the University when he was eight years old and plans to follow with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in theoretical physics, pure maths or astrophysics. He has also mastered several martial arts and is a certified scuba diver. He started studying math when he was 2 years old. He has written a book, "We can do", where he explains how he is not a genius, just a boy who worked hard and didn't waste his time watching TV or playing video games. In his book, he wants to encourage parents to educate their children in a way they can take advantage of what they have, as his parents did. - AFP Photo

LOS ANGELES: Moshe Kai Cavalin insists he is not a “genius” - even though he earned an associate's degree when he was 11, and is soon to graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA