Whiz Kid: All-Around Star Caitlin Livesey

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This week's Whiz Kid: Caitlin Livesey

- School: Rosemont School of the Holy Child eighth grader; Caitlin lives in Bryn Mawr

- Accomplishment: Caitlin was recognized on the Math Forum, an online math quiz sponsored by Drexel, for a question she answered correctly last month. Caitlin is captain of the Mathcounts competition at Rosemont School of the Holy Child.

She qualified in the sixth grade to take the SATs as a Johns Hopkins Scholar, as a result of her Educational Records Bureau test results.

She participates on the stage crew for the school play and is a member of the school’s handbell choir. Caitlin is also on the Class of 2011 yearbook, is a Reading Olympics participant, was a class representative for the student government in third and seventh grades, and takes additional art classes outside of school.

- Key to awesomeness: Caitlin says she likes drawing and reading. She especially enjoys drawing nature scenes and flowers, and she likes reading mystery books and fantasy, including an Agatha Christie book she read once.

Her favorite subjects in school are science and social studies—she particularly likes doing experiments in science and is interested in American history.

Caitlin says she plans to go to Notre Dame Academy for high school and might want to be a chef when she gets older. She likes making desserts and pastries and has been cooking for as long as she can remember.

Caitlin’s advice for other students would be “to work hard and keep trying to reach their goals,” she said.