Show is back for the second season on Lifetime.
By Sreekanth A Nair
Watch the war of brains; the second season of the reality show ‘Child Genius’ has started on Lifetime channel.
Children in the age group of 9-12 from across the nation compete for $100,000 college scholarship money. The breathtaking drama and moments of child prodigy come alive will be telecast over 10 weeks.
Students are selected from public schools, private schools, and homeschooling. There are a plenty of reasons to watch season 2 as the talent of the students will surprise everyone.
Talents of the participants really indicate that as the show goes on the viewers can witness war of the brain. A 10-year-old boy is taking high school math class, an 11-year-old girl has written her first novel.
Two subjects will be covered in each week. The subjects include mathematics, spelling, geography, current events, literature and the arts, Earth science, and astronomy and space.
Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin is the host of the competition.
The must watch competitors of season 2 are Adrian, Arnav, Chancellor, and Claire, said reports. While their performance in math competition was satisfactory, they did an outstanding performance in memory testing competition.
Surprising everyone, Chancellor remembered an impressive 52 out of 52 cards in a shuffled deck while Adrian memorized 34 out of 52 cards, and Claire and Arnav tied with 40.
Their performance underlines that they will go long in the competition since they are confident, composed and stable.
The program is co-sponsored by American Mensa Society.
In the first season, Indian American middle schooler Vanya Shivashankar was the winner of $100,000 grand prize.
The 13-year-old Shivashankar is the daughter of Indian-American couple Sandy and Mirle Shivashankar, both IT professionals
She is also a top speller, having been to the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee three times. Her other interests include acting, singing, piano, bike riding, swimming, brain games and playing with her dog, according to the show’s website.
Another Indian American, Tanishq Abraham, exited the show in the fifth week.
This year also, there are lots of Indian American students participating in the competition.
1 Comment
Vivek Abraham is another Indian in this competition and last I checked he is doing pretty good as well. Interesting that Mr. Nair chose to ignore him. Please do your home work before publishing.