Garden International School Special
Isaac Hew
As his fingers fly over the iPad screen, Isaac explains: “I found a way to run Javascript code in the iPad browser.” To emphasise this statement, he writes another line of code, indecipherable to a layman’s eyes, and as the iPad’s screen settings go into dark mode, red text appears instead of your standard white.
“I made the code editor,” states the 12-year-old matter-of-factly. “It makes it easier for me to code Javascript on any mobile device.” A Year 7 student at Garden International School, Isaac is the youngest of this talented trio and a mathematical genius in his own right—at just 8 years old, he had already participated in the American Mathematics Olympiad.
Since then, he has achieved an A* for GCSE Mathematics and has competed in a number of Olympiads across the region. The young mathematician had also completed two undergraduate open course modules in Computational Thinking and Programming at MIT. “I like fractions the most,” he says. “But all of it is really fun—the problem-solving aspect is what I enjoy the most, and there’s always a solution to everything! And because coding is based off of maths in some way, I find the possibilities to create are endless!”