This computer whiz became a Microsoft Certified Professional at age 5

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last updated 10 January 2015

With just five years under his belt, Ayan Qureshi became the youngest person to become a Microsoft Certified Professional, an exam people usually take when they are trying to become IT technicians.

Now 6, Ayan continues to work on his own computer network at home, and spends two hours a day learning how to install programs and figuring out operating systems. He told the BBC he hopes to one day create the UK version of Silicon Valley, calling it E-Valley. "I'm very happy and very proud," his mother, Mamoona, said. "I don't want to see him set a world record every day. But I want him to do his best at whatever he does in his life."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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