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![Kent State senior Maya McDaniel will become one of the university's youngest students to receive a bachelor's degree. (Screenshot courtesy of WEWS News 5 Cleveland)](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/article/WEWS%20screenshot%20of%20Maya%20McDaniel_0.png?VersionId=eGE5e88nxgmHtWhPLElHqvXKaOC4HwnP&h=1fb7ab08&itok=5WuhEDWs)
Kent State University student Maya McDaniel began her collegiate journey at age 14. Now a 17-year-old senior, she is set to graduate with a degree in game design and a minor in computer science and also set to become one of the youngest students to receive a bachelor’s degree from the university.
![Benjamin Mudrak Benjamin Mudrak](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/page/Benjamin%20Mudrak_1500w600h.jpg?VersionId=2mIHJQNR52totx8pysDVORb7bBBlbXQ_&h=e6f36a9c&itok=vDNrKQSl)
While most 18-year-olds are finishing up their high school requirements for graduation and making plans to attend college or applying for jobs, a few exceptional students like Benjamin Mudrak are simply way ahead of their peers in their academic pursuits.
![Megan Schinker, a senior at Stow-Munroe Falls High School, participated in the College Credit Plus Science Experience Internship Program at Kent State University's Department of Geology.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/page/editBOB_4911.jpg?VersionId=0EQ9.9UHpiSeKViYTZ8ZC877LxFIcdQ1&h=56d0ca2e&itok=mwD78-Bj)
Imagine being a 17-year-old high school student, and in your first semester of a geology research internship, your professor asks you to identify an extinct 300-million-year-old, tiny and unknown crustacean specimen. Megan Schinker, then an ambitious Stow-Munroe Falls High School junior, jumped right in.
![Megan Schinker, a senior at Stow-Munroe Falls High School, participated in the College Credit Plus Science Experience Internship Program at Kent State University's Department of Geology.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/page/editBOB_4911.jpg?VersionId=0EQ9.9UHpiSeKViYTZ8ZC877LxFIcdQ1&h=56d0ca2e&itok=mwD78-Bj)
Imagine being a 17-year-old high school student, and in your first semester of a geology research internship, your professor asks you to identify an extinct 300-million-year-old, tiny and unknown crustacean specimen. Megan Schinker, then an ambitious Stow-Munroe Falls High School junior, jumped right in. Now a senior in high school, Ms. Schinker, chose Kent State as her undergraduate school where she will pursue a double major in geology and chemistry starting fall 2019.