Let me take a moment to brag about swimmer2006...

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...for she is made of awesome.

She just got a letter on Thursday telling her that she is invited to apply for the International Baccalaureate high school diploma programme.

This kicks much arse.

The IB program is an internationally recognized high school program, and if she does well in it (which I know she can and likely will), she can go to college damn near anywhere she likes and do anything she likes.

Ever since I heard of this thing, I've been wanting her to have the opportunity, and now she's invited to apply.

So three cheers for Mini-me. Hip hip huzzah, hip hip huzzah, hip hip huzzah!!!

She's the only person in her year at her school to get the letter. She's apparently the only kid in the entire eighth grade at her school to have the grades and the FCAT (standardized test) scores to qualify.

She's just brilliant.

And as further proof of brilliance, this year's science project is another engineering project. She's taking the hovercraft she built in FOURTH GRADE (!!!!) and working out how best to steer it.

Again, she's fourteen years old, and she's working on the trajectory and speed of a one-person hovercraft that she built when she was nine (with grandfatherly assistance because power tools were involved).

She's so damn smart it's almost scary.

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Next school year. She's in eighth grade now, and the IB program is for high school kids.

Thanks!