Huey-You showed exceptional intelligence at a very young age . He was reading chapter books at age two and wanting to learn calculus by age three . His mother , Claretta Kimp , said , " I got him a little calculus book and he could work some of the very first questions in the book and then I thought , ok ... you 're really smart , " recalling the time it really hit that her son was gifted . He scored a 1770 on the SAT national college entrance test and graduated high school as co-valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA at age 10 . His mother , Claretta Kimp , who studied early education and business at Southern Illinois University , homeschooled him until he was five years old . He and his younger brother , Cannan , attended and graduated from the Accommodated Learning Academy in Grapevine , Texas . Currently , Cannan Huey-You is a sophomore at Texas Christian University pursuing a degree in astrophysics and engineering in the fall of 2018 at age 12 working to be an astronaut . During his time as an undergraduate student , Huey - You communted between home and campus with his mother.Carson and Cannan Huey-You were featured in '' Parade '' meeting with Bill Nye and discussing the physics related to the Solar eclipse of August 21 , 2017
Solar eclipse of August 21 , 2017
Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017
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