Moshe Kai Cavalin has two graduate degrees, but he was
too young to vote. He was flying an aircraft, but he was too young to drive a
car yourself. Life is full of contrasting things to Cavalin.
Teens 17 years old from San Gabriel, California, who has
raced beyond his years. He graduated from college at age 11. Four years later,
he has a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
This year, he started online classes to get a master's degree in cybersecurity through Boston Brandeis University. He decided to postpone for a few semesters, to help NASA develop technologies to spy aircraft and drones.
In between all that, his life was full workload 'torture.' Cavalin has just published his second book, recounts the experience of a life full bully by his friends.
Additionally, Cavalin plans to have aircraft pilots license at the end of this year. At his family home in Los Angeles, a row of trophies his talent in martial arts all over the room.
However, Cavalin insists he is an ordinary teenager. He only indulged his parents to learn and choose freedom activities outside lesson she likes. Fondness for martial activity has been ingrained, his mother from Taiwan and a father from Brazil.
"I'm not as special as it was. It's just a combination of parent and motivation and inspiration," said Calavin after working at NASA's Flight Research Center in Armstrong Edwards, California, as reported from yahootech, Tuesday (11/03/2015)
"I tend not to compare yourself to other people. I'm just trying to do the best that I can."
Her parents say she has always learned quickly. At the age of 4 months, Cavalin utter his first words. He pointed to a jet in the sky and say 'best' in Chinese.
Cavalin managed to skip school to college at very young age. He even speaks of trigonometry at the age of 7 years.
"I think most people just think he's a genius, they believe kejenuisan just comes naturally," says Daniel Judge, a math professor who teaches Cavalin for two years at East Los Angeles College. "He really worked harder than, I think, any other student I've ever had."
But Cavalin education boom is not without twists. Early in college, he dreamed of being an astrophysicist. When he started taking physics classes, interest reduced. His interest in cryptography led him toward computer science.
He was surprised when NASA called him to offer the job, after rejecting him in the past because of his age. Ricardo Arteaga, boss and mentor at NASA, said Cavalin perfect for a project that combines mathematics, computers and aircraft technology.
"I need interns who know the software and know the mathematical algorithm," said Arteaga. "And I also need a pilot flying a Cessna."
"In the office, Cavalin is a quiet worker with a sense of humor," said Artega.
Cavalin daily work at NASA is run simulations and drone aircraft that accidentally ditabrakan, and then finding a way to route to a safe place.
"He's really good in math," said Artega. "What we unearthed was his intuitive skills."
In conversation, Cavalin talk with rhythm and diction with caution. He was disturbed by certain words: "The one word that I do not really like is the word genius," he said. "Genius is too far away".
After she completed her master's from Brandeis, Cavalin hoping to get a master's in business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He wanted to build his own cybersecurity firm.
For now, he was counting the days to the age of 18 years, then, he was only able to get a driving license in accordance with the law in California. Stay away from home to work at NASA, it depends on the owner's quarters where he lived for delivering shopping, or he took a taxi alone. His colleagues are older encourage him to work every day.
Problem youth, Cavalin half-jokingly said he would wait until he got a doctorate to find a girlfriend. Uh oh!
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