Five-year-old Maddox Lopez is following in the footsteps of his sister, who was inducted into high-IQ society Mensa, in 2024.
With an Einstein-level IQ, Maddox already understands times tables and is a member of Mensa, an organization that requires participants to take an approved intelligence test and score within the top 2% of the general population, its website states.
Maddox now joins his sister, Declan, in the organization, which requires an IQ of 130 or more, ABC7 New York reports.
“Maddox is all about math and coding, and he finds back doors on video games and programs, where Declan is just like an intellectual who loves to learn anything,” their mother, Meachel, told the outlet.
That’s not all. Both Maddox and Declan join their father, Delano, who is also an educator and member of Mensa. However, he credits his children’s intelligence to his wife.
“She was doing a lot of extra work with the kids. Even once they started back to school after COVID, she had a whole schedule up, and every day would be a certain different subject,” Delano said to ABC7 New York.
Speaking on raising the children, Meachel commented:
“You have to let the kid kind of lead a little bit because then they’re not going to enjoy it, and they’re not going to enjoy learning. And I don’t want that to be. I don’t want to create a situation where my child is amazing, but they don’t want to learn because I’ve been too stringent or strict.”
Mensa currently has nearly 150,000 members, including Taurian Collins, who was six years old when he was inducted in 2024. As AFROTECH™ previously reported, the Louisiana student began reading at two years old and aspired to one day play in the NFL and become an astronaut.
“He said he’s going to Harvard at 13. So, we’re going to do whatever we have to do to get him to Harvard at 13,” his mother, Jessica, told KNOE-8 in March 2024.
