The Smartest Kid in the World . Guess of what ethnicity?

The Smartest Kid in the World not surprisingly is an American Girl Of what ethnicity? Guess! Even though, she was only 11 years old in 2009, she was in big demand on the world lecture and classroom circuit. A child prodigy and internationally published author, known for her essays, stories, poems, blogs, and full-length books. Described as "a tiny literary giant", there was no end to Adora's talents. She started teaching at seven and in the same year had her first book Flying Fingers (a collection of short stories which contains tips and hints for other aspiring writers) published internationally. Her second, Dancing Fingers (a collection of poetry written with her older sister), was published in 2008 and she was then working on another four. Historical fiction and fantasy are her favorite genres, although she prefers J K Rowling to Charles Dickens, whose sentences are, she tells me, "a little convoluted" for her liking. Adora quickly set about spreading the joy of literature to others at her own request and becoming, the youngest teacher in the world. She has travelled, all expenses paid, to more than 300 schools and classrooms worldwide including China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and once to a primary school in the UK, gaining the nickname "Dora the Explorer" for the way she opens up the experiences of reading and writing to children. Adora is quick; she types between 80 to 112 words per minute, reads two to three books per day, and writes around 330,000 words per year. She sees herself as an "educator, poet and humanitarian," but to the rest of the world she is simply a child with an adult brain – and a grueling daily schedule which often doesn't end until 11pm. Her Public Speaking Engagements Include 1. February 2010 TED Talk, "What Adults Can Learn From Kids," has received over 5 million views to date on TED.com. 2. InfoCom 2013 closing keynote , Calcutta, India, December 7, 2013 3. INK Talks (in association with TED) in Lavasa, India, December 2010, speaking on how young people use technology in the modern world. 4. UN Economic and Social Council Youth Forum Conference, keynote with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in attendance. NY, March 2013. 5. Girls' State of the Union at National Press Club, Washington, DC, January 2013, introduced by Gloria Steinem. 6. Mashable Social Good Summit, Speaker, New York, NY, September 2012. 7. ECIS (European Council of International Schools) keynote in Nice, France and visit to speak to students at the Dubai Women’s College. 8. 2015 Svitak addressed the National School Boards Association in an "Un-General" session and followed up with an extended session on encouragement of writing and reading that is relevant to students. OTHER WORK 1. Edited Green My Parents: Join the Youth Movement to Seed the Green Economy in 2010. 2. Contributed poems to the Redmond Centennial Poetry Anthology in 2012. 3. Huffington Post featured blogger for Women, Education, Parenting, and Teen verticals. "Would You Let Your Daughter Wear This?" article received upwards of 2000 comments, becoming one of the most popular articles on the Huffington Post. 4. Mashable featured blogger. 5. Edutopia blogger. 6. Adora reported for online news site VICE on the ji6SETI organization, interviewing astronomer and TED Prize winner Jill Tarter and producing the video "The Thankless Search for Intelligence Out There...Somewhere" 7. Special columnist for Gulf News;[23] writing a column for parents about the new generation and how interactions with technology would necessarily shape family and social dynamics. 8. Gates Foundation Impatient Optimists blogger. 9. Women's Media Center blogger. ACTIVISM From 2005–2009, Svitak was a Verizon Foundation Literacy Champion. In that capacity, she appeared on behalf of the Foundation at National Center for Family Literacy convention in Orlando, Florida and at the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Conference (formerly the National Education Computing Conference). During the summer of 2012 Adora wrote scripts for, and appeared in, Google's "Teach Teachers Tech" videos, modeled after the company's "Teach Parents Tech" videos, promoting digital tools for use in education. From her Girls' State of the Union address at the National Press Club to her 2014 speech at the Orange County Girls' Conference at UC Irvine, Adora has publicly espoused feminist values. Forbes writer Denise Restauri wrote about Adora in an article titled "Is this 15-year-old Feminist a New Kind of Gloria Steinem in the Making?" In a later interview for Forbes commenting on the controversy around Sports Illustrated using Barbie as a cover girl, Adora said of the doll, "She encourages an unrealistic expectation of beauty grounded in narrow ideals – whiteness, thinness, a lack of hair and an abundance of breast tissue – instead of kindness, smarts, self-confidence, or athleticism." AWARDS and HONORS In 2011, the National Education Association Foundation gave Adora their Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education. Past recipients include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, and Fred Rogers.[ The Huffington Post included her on their 2012 "18 under 18 Most Amazing Young People of the Year" list alongside athletes like Gabby Douglas and pop culture icons like Harry Styles. In her junior year of high school, Svitak was named a Redmond Rotary Club Student of the Month. Her "Girls' State of the Union" video, submitted to a Women's Media Center contest, took first place; subsequently, she spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. In 2013, Svitak was named a Three Dot Dash Global Teen Leader by the New York City-based We Are Family Foundation for her work organizing TEDxRedmond and raising awareness for the UN World Food Programme. As a Global Teen Leader, she participated in a week-long leadership summit in New York City in March 2013. Who’s this Girl? Her name will surprise you: Adora Lily Svitak a native of Springfield Oregon , born on October 15, 1997 Her name clearly suggests a Czech background Yes indeed, on her father’s side, she is of Czech ancestry, while her mother is a Chinese immigrant. Her father, Dr. John F. Svitak studied physics and worked as a software engineer. He double-majored in Chemistry and Mathematics (and minored in Philosophy) at Rutgers University and then studied Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science at the University of Oregon, receiving my PhD in Physics in 1998. With the current emphasis on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning, having the breadth of these subjects has enabled me to explain many concepts from multiple perspectives. REFERENCES Wikipedia Corr. Kate, “Is Adora Svitak the cleverest child in the world?" The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved October 30, 2009. See - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/4241402/Is-Adora-Svitak-the-cleverest-child-in-the-world.html “Adora Svitak,” in: her Website. See - https://www.adorasvitak.com/ “Adora Svitak. Child prodigy,” in: TED.com. See - https://www.ted.com/speakers/adora_svitak “John F. Svitak,” in his Website. See - http://www.johnfsvitak.com/about-me.html