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media/2010/10/Gavin_on_CNN1.png" rel="lightbox[161]" title="Gavin_on_CNN">This Friday, CNN came out with an article titled: “Parents: How to raise a creative genius” and Gavin has been featured quite prominently in it.

Excerpt from the article:

When Gavin Ovsak started multiplying double-digit numbers in his head in kindergarten, his mother, Cathy, was astonished.

“We were like, where did that come from? When did they cover that today?” said his mother, who lives in Hopkins, Minnesota. Today, Gavin is a 16-year-old award-winning inventor who’s finishing up applications for two prestigious science competitions. His entry is the Circuit-Hat Accessibility Device, an electronic hat that allows disabled people to use a computer without a mouse.

When he’s not working on these kinds of projects, he’s performing improv comedy, leading a robotics team and heading his school’s foreign exchange club — and, of course, homework. What motivates this passion for learning, and achievement? Gavin says that he has a natural drive to challenge himself and help people through technology, but his parents have also opened his world with opportunities to excel.

Gavin is traveling to Akron, Ohio for his induction in to the National Gallery with his parents, and he is quite happy with all the wonderful comments from around the globe! CNN reporter, Elizabeth Landau has also written a wonderful blog post about Gavin’s invention, the CHAD.

Relevant Links:

1. http://www.studentnews.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/22/motivation.kids/index.html
2. http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/22/operate-a-computer-head/