12-year-old brilliant Alena Wicker has gained admission to Arizona State University, Arizona, United States.
Alena was still a high school student when she gained admission to the university due to her exceptional brilliance and dream of becoming a space engineer in the future. Alen will be focusing her studies at Arizona State University on astronomical and planetary science and chemistry to pursue her dream.
“I always dreamed of being an engineer because throughout my life I liked the building,” Alena told “Gold Morning America” about her goal to work at NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Originally, she said, she wanted to be an astronomer, but then she decided to switch over to engineering because of her love of building things. “I would love to build a rover to go to space,” Alena Wicker said.
She started pursuing her dream at a very young age. Since she was 4 years old, she has always built NASA-sized Legos.
“She would always say, ‘Mommy, I’m going to work for NASA. Then she would start saying, ‘I’m going to be the youngest Black girl to ever work for NASA,” Daphne McQuarter (her mother) recounted.
I like to tell each unique individual whom worked hard with a God given talent desires the acknowledgment of greatness! I hope I am still here to see U graduate from college be blessed.