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Sofia Hublitz, 13, is an aspiring actress and chef who is competing on Fox's "MasterChef Junior," with Gordon Ramsay.
The kids are more than all right.
Multi tasking millennials are making a killing in careers from film to fashion and even deejaying . And now that LinkedIn has lowered the minimum age to join the professional networking site from 18 to 14, competition from underage overachievers is about to get a lot stiffer.
New York is naturally home to the best and brightest young minds — from a young chef who’s cooking for Gordon Ramsay on TV, to an award-winning digital animator who’s already directed his first Off -Broadway play. Both are under 14 .
Adults had better watch their backs and brush up their résumés, because the next generation is gunning for their jobs.
And if these teens can make it here, they can make it anywhere.
THE DEEJAY
FULANO LIBRIZZI, 10
DJ Cassidy’s protégé began feeling the beat in the womb.
“He would kick to rhythms, and I was like, is this kid keeping time?” says mom Latham Thomas, 32, who calls Fulano Librizzi her little Duke Ellington.
While other kindergartners were mixing fingerpaint, Fulano scored a scholarship at age 5 to mix music at the Dub Spot deejay school on 14th St .
“Everyone said I was really good at it,” shrugs Fulano, who studied scratching for two years before deejaying a friend’s birthday party for $20 when he was 7. Now he makes $10,000 a night.
Fulano began tweeting at DJ Cassidy to listen to his work, but the star admits it was months before he listened. “I really didn’t pay attention to it at first,” says Cassidy, who mentors the Harlem fifth -grader. “Then I met him. He’s better at 10 than I was at 18.”
The star student is determined to go to college and earn a master ’s degree, possibly in computer science or linguistics.
At 13, Callie Reiff is a student, model and fashion blogger who recently covered New York Fashion Week.
At 14, she was one of only 35 students selected from a national pool of more than 500 for the prestigious Math and Science for Minority Students summer program at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. The intense annual summer sessions cover a full year of physics, advanced mathematics and other subjects in just five weeks.
“I cried a lot my first summer,” admits Erika. “It was stressful, because I never had so much work ... but it was good because now I know what college feels like. ”
Now she’s prepping for the SATs (hoping to score at least 1800) and visiting colleges.
“She is an amazing all-around student,” says WHEELS principal Brett Kimmel. “You put all of these things on paper and she stands out, and then when you meet her, she’s so engaging, and has so much drive and determination. Educators would love to bottle that to give to any student.”
