Ecuadorian-American Ana is a fiercely competitive botanist who comes from an ethnic community largely absent from the winner’s circle of elite science contests. The miracle of local filmmaker Tom Shepard (who Beyond Chron interviewed in a recent article) and Tina DiFeliciantonio’s “Whiz Kids” is that the documentary gives equal due to both its subjects’ scientific research and the personal challenges that dominate their lives.Īna Cisneros, Harmain Kahn, and Kelydra Welcker are the titular high school whiz kids. Yet there’s also an awareness of the intellectual distance between these kids and those of average intelligence. There is admiration for these kids’ precocious intelligence. The slang term “whiz kids” both praises and distances the children referenced by the term.
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