Luca Guida was just 12 years old when he took his first college course. “When I first went to our local community college, some of the professors saw me walking around and thought that somebody had decided to bring their child to campus,” he recalled. Now 15 years old, Luca became one of the youngest students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus this fall, along with his sister Sofia, who is 17 years old.

The siblings, from Tampa, Florida, are both in the university’s Honors program and arrived on campus with enough college credits to qualify as upperclassmen. Their mother, Meghan Guida, said it was tough to let them move across the state, but the siblings had reached a point where they needed to be more academically challenged.