Lake Charles third grader accepted into Mensa

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - How many of you know what your IQ is?

Kamden Nicholas enjoys doing many things the average eight year old boy would, like playing with siblings or playing sports.

But, Kamden was recently accepted into Mensa.

"So when we got his test scores, he tested going into second grade for the gifted program with CPSB, and his scores were really high and they were above the 99th percentile," Kamden's mom Tabitha Nicholas said.

To qualify for Mensa, one must take an intelligence test and score in the top two percent of the general population.

Kamden's parents say they noticed he was gifted at a very young age.

"I would say from the time he started talking, just because you know people would often say, you know how they joke, say a kid has been on the earth before and he was kind of one of those kids that people would say that about just just because (there were) certain things that he picked up on just naturally without being instructed," Kamden's dad Kedrick Nicholas said.

Kamden is in third grade and enrolled in the gifted program. His favorite subject is math.

"We learn about liters, millimeters, grams, and kilograms," Kamden said.

We asked Kamden what his method is for learning so much so young.

"I sometimes write things down and remember them on a paper, and then I can remember them, so then I remember the stuff so I can get a good grade," he said.

We also asked his parents where Kamden gets his passion for learning.

"I was in gifted growing up, I think I started in first or second grade in gifted all the way through school, but I think equally both of us excelled in school, so I think he has the benefit of having two intelligent parents and it's rubbing off on him, as well as his brother," Kedrick Nicholas said.

Kamden already knows where he wants to go to college and when he grows up he wants to be a football player and an educator for gifted students.