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Useful quarantine: 12-year-old boy graduated from high school and college at the same time

A 12-year-old North Carolina boy used his spare time during the pandemic to take some extra lessons at school. Now he will graduate from high school and college in one week. Writes about it CNN.

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A year after the outbreak of the pandemic, Salisbury's Mike Wimmer prepares to graduate from high school and college at about the same time.

Wimmer completed four years of high school in one year—two years of high school and a two-year college program. He will graduate from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on May 21 and from Concord Academy on May 28.

The idea did not mature immediately, he said.

Wimmer was attending dual-enrollment classes and realized that at the pace at which he walked, he just needed a few more classes to complete his associate's degree by graduation.

The student said his GPA at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is 4,0 and the school's GPA is 5,45.

Love for robotics

Although Wimmer is several years younger than his classmates, he says he gets along well with them—he even served on the alumni council last year.

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Wimmer, who is interested in robotics, said he is a "mathematician and natural scientist." He's always had a love for technology - he got his first iPad when he was 18 months old and wanted to know how it worked even then.

He gained almost all of his programming and robotics knowledge through trial and error and online videos.

The guy created his own startup called Reflect Social, which, according to his website, "combines popular social media platforms with Internet of Things (IoT) devices to deliver a dynamic new social experience."

Wimmer's goal for the startup is to make smart home technology easier to operate and ultimately help others.

“My entrepreneurial goal is to create technology that allows people to live better lives,” he explained.

What the future holds for him

Wimmer's parents said they were proud of who their son has become.

"If one door is locked, he'll find another way to figure out how to achieve his goals," said his mother, Melissa Wimmer.

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With only a few weeks left until high school graduation, Wimmer said he is weighing many options for his next steps.

These include job offers in the US and abroad, additional studies or scholarships that will allow him to develop his startup.

But he said he wanted people to know that he was still a child, so he found time for normal childhood activities such as basketball and building Lego.

“A lot of people think I've given up on my childhood or somehow lost it,” Wimmer commented. “And I tell them I have time for everything.”

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