DD8 took a second prize in the mathematical kangaroo competition, and took the school prize for greatest kangaroo leap (meaning greatest number of correctly solved problems in a row).
Which doesn’t sound that impressive unless you know that she competed as a fourth grader. However, as an August born and grade-skipped kid she is not only the youngest in her grade in school, but would also be one of the youngest in the year below. There are second graders older than her. It is not only a grade based but also a criterion referenced competition, so second prize means she is in the lower half of the first percentile of fourth graders in the nation and would be in the top half of the first percentile for her actual age group of third graders, and since no one took a first neither in fourth or third grade, she had the best results in the school.
She also looked very cute walking up to the principal in impeccable traditional dress, but with her cardie slung around her hips. Great mama bursting with pride moment!