Kashe Quest/Photo courtesy of Flipboard
A Los Angeles toddler has become the youngest member of Mensa. Two-year-old Kashe Quest was accepted into the largest and older high IQ society in the world with a 146 IQ. Kashe is the youngest American member of the organization, reported Fox 11.
“We started to notice her memory was really great. She just picked up things really fast and she was really interested in learning. At about 17, 18 months, she had recognized all the alphabet, numbers, colors, and shapes,” said Sukhjit Athwal, Kashe’s mother.
Kashe is certainly headed for wunderkind status. She can identity all 50 states by shape and location, has learned about 50 words in sign language and even knows some of the elements on the periodic table with their symbols. Basically, she can do things that many adults cannot do.
But, her high intelligence has not taken away the innate temperament of the average two-year-old child. Athwal said Kashe still has tantrums but because she understands things on a higher level, the way her parents deal with them is a little different.
IQ is short for intelligence quotient and measures a person’s reasoning ability. It gauges how well someone can use information and logic to answer questions or make predictions. Mensa was founded in 1946 and has about 145,000 members. In order to join the organization, a person must take and pass an approved IQ test and score in the top two percent.
The gifted toddler’s mother, an educator, noted that trying to find a preschool that would help foster her daughter’s strengths was so hard that she opened her own. There, she teaches other children including Kashe.
Kashe Quest joins Muhammad Haryz Nadzim in the talented toddler brigade of baby geniuses. He was the youngest member to be inducted into Mensa worldwide at two years and four months old with a score of 142.