(Original source The Best Schools)
“When you hear “World’s Smartest Teen,” perhaps you imagine a young person who spends their free time hanging out in the physics lab, reading the dictionary for fun, or memorizing digits of Pi. This article profiles 50 of the world’s smartest teens. They’re homeschooled, public schooled, and private schooled, they come from all over the world. Many have won top prizes at the world’s most prestigious science fairs. Some of these teenagers were awarded recognition on “20 under 20” and “30 under 30” lists, others have given TED talks, and a few of them reject social media, defying our stereotypes of what it means to be a 21st-century teen. Other than heading to the best universities on the planet — many of them funneling into MIT at an alarming rate — what do these brilliant young people have in common?
So they’re the smartest teenagers in the world. What makes them so smart?”
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