Last year, if you remember, we met, 10-year-old, Sean Atitsogbe, aka, Sean The Science Kid, as started taking over the internet by storm with his passion for science. Fast-forward, and the young MENSA member is rubbing shoulders and sharing the mic with one of CNN‘s elite anchors, Dr. Sanjay Gupta in a new interview.

Atitsogbe, of Lilburn, Georgia, joked with Dr. Gupta, telling him that he started learning science from the womb. He told the CNN medical contributor that science to him is like video games for other children. 

Sean The Science Kid said that his parents identified his educational talent when he was just 9 months old after he read a sign for the apparel store, Carter’s, during a family outing. At three-years-old, his mother enrolled him in High Achievers Education Center Inc., where he excelled quickly, advancing to the second grade. 

“After being turned away by three schools, we finally found Dr. Nadra Powell at HAEC, who immediately recognized Sean’s brilliance and welcomed us in. HAEC gave Sean the structure and support he needed to thrive,” Eunice Atitsogbe, Sean’s mother said in a post shared on HAEC’s official Instagram page.

So, just how did Sean The Science Kid become an internet sensation with an Instagram following that boasts over 1M followers and a YouTube channel that has 12.3K followers?

Well, it all started with his first viral video where Sean made himself a tasty breakfast, explaining the science behind why breakfast is truly the most important meal of the day. Since then, Sean has become a household name, imparting his scientific knowledge on the world.

Of course, Sean The Science Kid wants to pursue medicine as a future career, with the hopes of becoming a neurocardiac surgeon.

“I want to be a neurocardio surgeon, which can be defined as the combination of a brain and a heart surgeon. And I invented this word when I was 4 years old,” he said in his interview.

“When I was doing research on the human body or anatomy — which was one of my favorite science subjects to study about — I found out that the brain and the heart are connected in a loop where the brain has to tell the heart to pump blood and the heart pumps blood to the brain so the brain can tell the heart to pump blood, and it’s a loop,” he continued.

He concluded, “So I thought, ‘If one is damaged, then what’s going to happen to this loop?’ So I decided to specialize my treatment in both of those.”

Photo: Sean The Science Kid Instagram; CNN YouTube