Many 9-year-olds are busy playing games with friends and finding creative ways to avoid doing homework. But for Laurent Simons, who was born in Amsterdam in the Netherlands but grew up in Belgium, school itself has become one big game that he’s very good at.
This incredibly intelligent boy has not only exceeded most other kids his age; he’s been taking university courses in electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. The child prodigy is on a path to finish a Bachelor of Science by December 2019 and has no intention of stopping there.
