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In eighth grade, during a physics and chemistry unit in a science class at Washington Middle School, Paxson Swierc was already jumping ahead in the textbook. He saw a unit that wasnât on the class syllabus about types of decay and equations related to mass.
âI went and asked the teacher about it and she said, âWe arenât going over that because itâs too complicated, so youâll learn about that in high school,ââ Swierc said. âI was like, âNo, I want to learn about it now.ââ
Four years later, the Hellgate High senior is prepping for a degree in astrophysics at the University of Chicago, which he said wouldnât be possible without the full-ride, four-year scholarship he was recently awarded.