12-year-old boy earns five degrees from a California university and is on his sixth: he wants to study aerospace engineering or pediatrics

File! A 12-year-old boy is living a dream come true. In the United States, Clovis Hung received five Associate of Arts degrees from one university: history, social sciences, social behavior and self-development, art and human expressions, and science and math.

He said, according to Telemundo, that he will go for more… His thing is to study. The American chain said Clovis “began his studies at Fullerton College, in California, when he was 9 years old”.

Three years later, in May 2023, he celebrated his graduation in a ceremony in which, the media agrees, most of those who went for his title were “at least 10 years” older than the “prodigy”, as described. it.

The 12-year-old prodigy

Clovis began his lessons at a traditional public school where, his mother said, “they couldn’t satisfy his curiosity, so the best option was to study.”

Song Choi described his son as “super curious, very curious, mature, industrious, disciplined and highly motivated.” Today, Song celebrates Clovis’ success at Fullerton College.

CNN en Español explains that this university, located in Orange County, California, “offers tertiary or associate degrees.”

An associate degree is a two-year intermediate degree at a local university that opens up the opportunity to continue studying for a bachelor’s degree at other universities, CNN reports.

For a video released by the institution on CNN, Lisa Mpcfheron, communications director, acknowledged that the boy studied rigorously and was very successful at Fullerton College. “He met all the requirements to graduate,” says Mpcfheron.

How is class? A biology professor, Kenneth Collins, told Telemundo, “Clovis is mature enough for the other students to take him seriously, but young enough to care for and encourage him like a younger brother.”

Milan, the super gifted child who inherited his mother’s intelligence: Shakira boasted at the age of 2 that her son could read and at the age of 10 he was playing the piano, drums and various sports

Basketball and Boy Scouts

“I’m going for my sixth associate title, Autonomous Systems,” he said. Not everything is studying in his life. When he is not in class or doing homework, he enjoys playing basketball and practices five days a week. “I also play Roblox and Minecraft,” he told CNN.

He is a helpful boy and it shows as a member of the Civil Air Patrol and the Boy Scouts.

Of Fullerton College, they told CNN that this dedicated student “will be taking science classes there until he can apply to universities in the fall.”

Few children at that age know what profession they will embrace for life. Clovis Hung has two in mind: aerospace engineering and pediatrics. But before he catches up with Telemundo at the age of 16, he wants to get his pilot’s license.