A great young talent has been making waves in the energetic community of Fremont, California. Meet Preesha Chakraborty, a nine-year-old sixth-grader who was just recognized as one of the “world’s brightest” due to an incredible achievement. The esteemed Johns Hopkins Centre for Talented Youth has honored her incredible journey (JH-CTY).
What sets Preesha apart is her outstanding performance on the JH-CTY test, where she achieved a score in the 99th percentile of advanced fifth-grade performances. This exceptional feat has earned her the coveted Grand Honors award, a testament to her exceptional academic abilities.
According to a press statement on Monday, she had taken the Summer 2023 test administered by the US-based Johns Hopkins Centre for Talented Youth (JH-CTY).The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth recently acknowledged 13-year-old Indian-American girl Natasha Perianayagam as one of the “world’s brightest” students for the second year in a row.
Attending Florence M. Gaudineer Middle School in New Jersey, Perianayagam demonstrated results in both the verbal and quantitative sections of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) test in the spring of 2021, which corresponded to advanced Grade 8 performance.Indian Americans are known for being exceptionally bright academically, and one prominent setting in which their abilities are on display is the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Children from all around the nation compete in this yearly spelling bee in the United States. Indian American students have excelled in the tournament over and over again, frequently making it to the finals and winning titles.
Their outstanding performances, characterized by a thorough comprehension of difficult vocabulary, showed their commitment to academic excellence and language proficiency and have helped to the general success of the Indian American community in the Scripps Spelling Bee.
