Thereâs smart⦠and then thereâs Felicia and Gaia Pleszewski. These 10-year-old twins, who live in Beaconsfield, were accepted into the Johns Hopkins Center For Talented Youth (CTY), a non-profit dedicated to identifying and developing the talents of academically advanced pre-college students around the world.
The CTY offers courses that can be claimed as credits in other schools, so the twins were pulled from traditional school and enrolled full-time in an accredited online school called CMASAS (Christa McAuliffe Academy School of Arts and Sciences in Oregon) in August 2020 for Grade 5. However, they took placement tests and were initially placed in Grade 8, which they have almost completed, so they have now started several Grade 9 courses.