Collinsville 5-year-old is a Mensa member

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Collinsville 5-year-old is a Mensa member

Ramona C. Sanders

22 hours ago  •  Ramona C. Sanders rsanders@yourjournal.com6

At the age of 5, Collinsville kindergartner Gus Dorman knows more than kids twice his age.

The Renfro Elementary School student knows every element on the periodic table, every state in the country and every country in the world. While his classmates are sounding out words and trying to comprehend simple sentences, Gus reads entire books. He doesn't just know 2+2, he can carry the ones and do calculations in his head.

Gus' dad, Rob Dorman, said he and his wife, Kotomi, knew Gus had “unique abilities,” when he was an infant.

“He started reading when he was 18-months-old,” Dorman said. “He was sitting on the porta-potty reading a newspaper. I noticed that he liked to look at maps so I put one up. In about a week's time, he had memorized everything on it. He's just always been very clever.”

That's why the couple wanted to have Gus' IQ, or intelligence quotient, tested. Last month, Gus scored in the 99 percentile in 7 out of 8 categories on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. The distinction earned him membership into Mensa, a club for people with high IQs. The qualifying IQ for members of any age is 130; Gus has an IQ of 147. Mensa has 110,000 members in 100 countries and the youngest member is 3-years-old.

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