13-year-old boy walks the stage as a college graduate

Elijah Muhammad has succeeded at becoming the youngest student at Oklahoma City Community College to walk the stage as a college graduate at just 13 years old.

Collegiate certified prodigy, Elijah Muhammad Jr., is currently a junior forensics cybersecurity major at Oklahoma State University and has just graduated from OCCC with an associates degree in computer science, specializing in cybersecurity. He began his collegiate journey during his junior year of high school at just 12 years old, in which he participated in dual-enrollment at OCCC. In addition to attending and graduating from OCCC, Muhammad Jr. completed hours at Langston University to obtain his associate degree and is currently taking classes at OSU.

The young graduate has managed to achieve a number of different awards and certifications such as his degree in computer science: cybersecurity, 10 IBM certifications, one Google IT certification and four mastery certificates in computer science from OCCC. Although he has contributed countless hours toward achieving such merits, what is tireless work for most is a passion and an addiction for the pursuit of knowledge for Muhammad Jr.

“I love learning things, whenever I can learn something I really want to learn it,” Muhammad said. “So, anytime I get the chance to learn something I’m on it and that’s one of the things that has really helped me throughout my college journey as well.”

The 13 year old is not the only admirable example in his family, as he has three other siblings that have graduated college at the ages of 15, 19 and 21 years old plus another sibling who is doing early enlistment into the army at age 17. Father of the five, who is also known as Elijah Muhammad, is grateful his children have a deeper understanding of the importance of education.

“I know with the African American community you see a lot of sports and entertainment that gets highlighted, so I’m glad that they get to be ambassadors for education on a bigger stage,” Muhammad Sr. said. “Visibility is important, so it’s really important to me that they have the opportunity to show that it can be done.”

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“It was a heads-up play for sure,” Holliday said. “(Brown’s) defense was pretty good. I thought we played good defense here.”

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Cowgirl golf team’s season ends with 11th-place finish at NCAA Championship

As Round 4 of the NCAA Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, concluded on Monday, the OSU women’s golf team’s season came to an end.

The Cowgirls finished 11th at the NCAA Championship, just four strokes out of the top-eight cut for a spot in match play.

The Cowgirls finished Round 1 of the tournament in second place after shooting a combined score of 280, 8-under par. Not only did they have a successful team performance, but Maddison Hinson-Tolchard had a record-breaking score. Hinson-Tolchard led the Cowgirls, shooting 6-under, making her 66 score the best a Cowgirl has carded at the NCAA Championship. Rina Tatematsu shot 4-under, placing her in a tie for third. Clemence Martin tied for 36th after shooting even-par in Round 1. Thitaporn Saithip and HanHsuan Yu tied for 66th, shooting 2-over (74).

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