Ainan Celeste Cawley

Ainan Celeste Cawley (born November 23, 1999) is a Singaporean child prodigy.[1]

Cawley gave his first public lecture at the age of six,[2][3] and at seven years and one month of age, he had passed the GCSE chemistry and studied chemistry at the tertiary level in Singapore Polytechnic[4] a year later. At the age of 9, he was able to recite pi to 518 decimal places and could remember the periodic table.[5] At the age of 12, he had scored his first film which was premiered at the Vilnius International Film Festival and eventually, directed his own film.[6]

In 2009, Cawley was featured in a Channel 4 documentary titled The World's Cleverest Child and Me.[7]

In 2010, his family moved to Kuala Lumpur where Cawley is a student at the Taylor's University in Malaysia after his father's request to have his son homeschooled was rejected.[8][9]

According to his parents, Valentine Cawley and Syahidah Osman, Cawley could walk at six months old and construct complex sentences by his first birthday[10] and had said his first word when he was two weeks old.[11]

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References
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  2. Cawley, Valentine (2006-11-19). "Is Six Year Old Child Prodigy, Ainan Celeste Cawley, The World's Youngest Science Teacher?". Cision. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  3. "The World's 50 Smartest Teenagers". TheBestSchools.org. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  4. "Half-Irish prodigy, 8, secures college place". Irish Examiner. 2008-05-20. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  5. Cawley, Ainan (2009-01-26). "Nine-year-old prodigy is 'world's cleverest child'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  6. Buckley, Dan (2014-01-04). "Irish child prodigy puts talent to use for typhoon charity". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  7. "The World's Cleverest Child and Me". 2009. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  8. Yap, Eve (31 March 2013). "My child is a prodigy" (PDF). Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  9. "Child prodigy quits 'rigid' Singapore for Malaysia". Asian Correspondent. 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  10. Frean, Alexandra (2007-11-10). "Can the child prodigy work out if he should go to university aged 7?". The Times UK. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  11. Yeoh, O. C. (2014-11-02). "GIFTED CHILDREN: Young achievers, high expectations". New Straits Times. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
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