whiz kid

In one scene, its whiz kid CEO grins from a billboard as “Prodigy is the future! Prodigy is forever!” repeats on a loop.

In “Wakanda Forever,” Riri is introduced as an MIT whiz kid who catches the eyes of the Wakandans after inventing a vibranium detector.

He charmed Rao, a Harvard-educated whiz kid he’d met while at Goldman, to become his co-founder.

To the end of his life, he had the aura of a nervous whiz kid with oversize glasses and frizzy hair.

Sapna Cheryan, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington who served a year on Mattel’s Barbie Global Advisory Council in 2018, said Asian Americans have long dealt with two stereotypes: the model-minority whiz kid or the perpetual foreigner.