Anderson loves outer space and wants to be an aerospace engineer. “I’m fascinated that there’s another world beyond ours. There’s another place. There’s a better place,” he previously shared with NPR. “You have the heroes that go on the rockets and fly up to space. But the aerospace engineers, they have their life in their hands. And I really think it’s interesting and amazing that they do that,” he said. Caleb’s mother, Claire Anderson, recognized when her son was an infant that he was extremely gifted. Caleb passed the first grade when he was age 3 and could have skipped middle school, “But we still decided to put Caleb into the seventh grade to build social skills and just think about the well-rounded child,” said Claire. However, being the smartest little guy in the room was not easy for Caleb.