![]() ![]() ![]() On stage that day, one of his baby teeth fell out. By 6, he was diagramming molecules of silicon dioxide – which, he explained, “we know as sand.” At 7, he whipped through high-school algebra in eight weeks.Īnd this past June, two days after his 10th birthday, he graduated from Orange Park High School, outside Jacksonville, with a 4.8 grade-point average – the youngest graduate ever in Florida public-school history. At 5, Greg presented a science project on photosynthesis to his kindergarten class. And probably their 4-year-olds weren’t reciting the Gettysburg Address or reading Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. “Every time we talked to other parents, it was, Oh, yeah, yeah, my kid’s that way too.”Ĭhances are, though, their kids weren’t identifying the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods at 18 months. “We didn’t really know how to explain it to people,” says Greg’s mom, Janet Smith, a former dancer, model and actress. “What comes after ‘H’?” you can hear his mother ask the tot in a home movie. Most babies, his mother knew, could only bat clumsily at such a moving target.īy age 1, Greg knew the alphabet and could speak in complete sentences. He would lie in his crib and catch the characters of a mobile spinning overhead – snatching one, then releasing it and snatching the next. HIS PARENTS NOTICED something different about him even before he could talk. ![]()
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