The professor asked the class to find an object and collect somebacteria from it. Students wiped their desks. She pulled out her teddy bear, Ben, from her backpack.
One of her classmates casually asked her age.
The college freshman and sophomores were told by Ahmed to say ten.
They referred to her as sweetie and honey at the beginning of the semester, but by the end they wanted her academic expertise.
Sawsan Ahmed is outside of the library. She was the youngest graduate in the college's 61-year history. She plans to attend the University of Florida.
That was two years ago. Sawsan was the youngest graduate in the school's 61-year history when she graduated on Wednesday. The previous record was held by a 15-year-old.
The child earned an associate's degree with a concentration in biological science. She will study at the University of Florida in January.
It was great. Sawsan said after the ceremony that she was happy. When Gregory Adam Haile recognized her, it was her favorite part.
While the crowd cheered, Haile said that Sawsan had helped demonstrate that the college could support the dreams regardless of age or academic pursuit.
The graduation of Sawsan Ahmed will take place on December 15, 2021. She is the youngest graduate of the college.
I love Disney movies and the game,Minecraft.
Sawsan is like any other girl her age. She likes to play video games and watch Disney movies, but her favorite is "Zootopia".
She has been an amazing person from an early age.
She was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and her dad remembers Sawsan was crying when he began to recite the Islamic call to prayer. She looked at him and stopped crying. She started crying again after he stopped speaking.
The nurse looked at the baby and then at her father. She told the dad to start talking, which ended Sawsan's wails.
He rushed to his wife's side and said he believed the baby's IQ was high because she had recognized his voice.
Jeena was laughing at her husband, thinking he was a proud dad. She made fun of him, but realized he was correct.
He can tease her about it now.
Jeena said that he brings it up all the time.
Sawsan Ahmed poses with her mom, Jeena Santos, and the CEO of Magic Leap.
Try to drive at 200 miles per hour.
Sawsan began saying "bye-bye" at nine months old.
Her mother remembers that it was good that she could tell her what she wanted.
Sawsan pieced together complete sentences by 15 months. She spoke directly to the doctor during her visits.
She was able to read and write when she was 2 years old. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, most children learn to read by 7 or 6 years old. She spelled her words phonetically in her handwritten letters to her mom.
At that point, her parents began to wonder if she should attend a regular school. They looked at some private institutions, but decided on Jeena, who home-schooled her while she was at Brown University.
Sawsan Ahmed graduated from the college at the age of 12. Sawsan was home-schooled by her mom until she was 10 years old.
Sawsan learned quickly. She was included in family decisions by the time she was 5. When they weighed the pros and cons of moving to Weston in the summer of 2014, Ahmed asked his daughter what she wanted to do. She was going to visit Disney, so she decided to stay in South Florida.
Her parents made sure that she had interests and a curriculum. She was taken to the Museum of Science in Boston because she liked insects. She was taken to the Kennedy Space Center because she was attracted to space.
They wanted to motivate her love for learning so they gave her the power to ask questions even if they were difficult to answer. She still asks tough questions such as, "Why are we Muslim?" and "Why are some people against same-sex marriage?"
Sawsan was ready to take the post-secondary education readiness test to see if she could handle college-level work. Her parents encouraged her to go at her own pace.
I always tell her that she can drive at 200 miles per hour. Her father said that if she wanted to drive at 50, she should try to do 200. She does this because she wants to do it.
Sawsan is about to graduate from college at the age of 12. Sawsan is in a biology lab at the college.
They thought mom was a student.
Sawsan was at the college in January. She achieved her high school graduation in the spring by dual enrolling.
She was born in January of 2006 and the drop-down menu only showed her birth year. She had to apply with special paperwork.
When her mom took her to the campus for the first time to get her ID, people assumed she was the student because she had just tagged along.
The parents of Sawsan Ahmed were in a biology lab at the college.
She said that everyone was staring at her. I was really excited.
She was able to complete most of her science courses, but struggled with her liberal art courses.
In June of 2021, her dad was transferred to the Abu Dhabi center of the Cleveland Clinic. The family moved around the world. Sawsan continued her education remotely because she had been taking all of her courses online, except for the biology lab that first summer.
She had to go to Warner Bros. World in the Middle East. She plans to join a female basketball team soon.
Sawsan received her degree from the college on Wednesday. She is the youngest graduate in the school's 61-year history. She earned a degree in biology.
I want to work in medical artificial intelligence.
Sawsan wants to work with artificial intelligence in medicine. She read a study a few months ago that said artificial intelligence could be better at detecting cancer in patients than radiologists are.
She will take part in the online program at the University of Florida. She picked the school because it has a class for biologists.
She said that she was interested in everything in one course.
Sawsan said no when asked if she regretted anything.
She said there was nothing she was missing. I still get to do a lot of things that my age do. Going to college has been more than just an extra thing; it has been a continuation of my childhood.
Sawsan Ahmed laughs as her parents kiss her outside of the library building.
