Meet the maths whiz who’s so clever he’s been picked to study in the USA

Lincolnshire Live’s Paul Whitelam reports on the success of our US Summer School Programme.

A maths whiz from Lincoln who first began writing computer code aged just 13 is so clever that he’s won a $250,000 scholarship to study at a university in America.

Jack Beckitt-Marshall, from St Catherines, who turns 18 on February 3, will study for a four-year degree at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine.

In his first two years he will read a broad range of subjects and then specialise or ‘major’ in maths and science in his final years.

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Jack is among just 42 state school students to win a scholarship after he attended a summer school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year in a programme run by the Sutton Trust with the US-UK Fulbright Commission.

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Jack, who is the first person in his family to go to university, said: “I would like to thank the Sutton Trust and the Fulbright Commission for offering me this opportunity, as it is literally a dream come true.

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Sir Peter Lampl, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust and chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: “America’s leading universities are bastions of progressive values and outstanding education.

“Their campuses are welcoming places for international students, whatever country or social background they come from.

“I’m delighted that 42 of our brightest state school students have won places to study in the States.

“They will benefit from a broad and varied curriculum as well as in-depth study and with 100 per cent funding they will graduate debt-free.

“I hope more young people will look to their success and realise that a university education in the States is well within their grasp.”

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