Rennu Dhillon DSc., Neighbor

Rennu Dhillon, DSc., has been described as "a woman of many talents". A well know Bay Area resident & community activist, Rennu has been in the United States since 1986. Her education includes a Bachelor of Science (Hons) Pharmacy & Doctorate of Science in Natural Sciences, and Early Childcare Educational Programs. She was born & raised in Kenya, East Africa and completed education in England. Rennu was academically a brilliant student and placed 1st in the Coast Province of Kenya and 2nd overall in the country in the high school examinations. She made several contributions to news publications during her academic years and began writing poems and articles at age 8.

Genius Kids is now a national franchise with over 22 locations in California, and scheduled to have over 30 locations by end of 2015. Genius Kids is expanding worldwide in 2015 and is now recognized as the Harvard of Early Learning.

Founder –Genius Kids www.geniuskidsonline.com

Founder - Miss.Rennu Online - first worldwide interactive early learning website - www.missrennuonline.com

Other sites include:

www.winwithwords.info

For further information on Rennu Dhillon, please email: rennud@gmail.com or 510-364-4033.

Genius Kids was started by Rennu Dhillon in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA, its first center in Fremont in 2001. Today it boasts 19 centers all over the San Francisco Bay Area, and growing (several other construction and lease negotiation). The center has won numerous awards and has been recognized as being "The School The Shapes Tomorrow's Citizens". Recently in 2014 Genius Kids has been recognized as the 26 best schools in the world by TV 5 Monde.

* 2005 - Best of the East Bay in Educational Services - "Most Likely Place to Find a Silicon Valley Inventor".

* 2009 - Nominated Best Preschool in Alameda County - KRON 4 TV - Best of the Bay.

* 2009 - Finalist for the Stevie Awards - Most Creative Professional

* 2009 - Outstanding 50 Asian American Award for Business

* 2009 - Finalist American Business Awards -Fastest Growing Women Owned Company

* 2009 - Finalist - Most Successful Women's Owned Business of the Year

* 2010 - Finalist - Most Creative Professional - missrennuonline.com.

* 2010 - Recipient of the Hind Rattan "Jewel of India" Award - January 2010.

* 2010 - Recipient of the NavRattan Award - January 25, 2011

* 2011 - Top 3 Finalist "Sikhs In The World" for Education

* 2011 - Winner of the Finest Woman Entrepreneur for 2011 - Most Innovative

* 2011 - Finalist Most Enterprising Woman Entrepreneur of North America - Enterprising Women

* 2011 - Featured on CNNmoney.com as a Business Visionary.

* 2012 - NavRattan Award & Bharat Divya Award for Education

* 2012 Fremont Hero Award - 20th District

* Featured on NBC September 2012 for Educational Advice & Opinions

* Featured on radio show and book "How to Raise a Millionaire"

* Genius Kids selected by TV 5 Monde as 26 Best Schools in the World and featured in a global documentary televised to 100 countries

Rennu believes that everyone is born a “Genius” and as educators and parents, it is our responsibility to “Awaken” the “Inner Genius” in our kids. Her unique instructional methods & stimulating curriculum, with the high energy paced classrooms filled with laughter, dance & fun learning has resulted in amazing personalities emerging, winning several district young author competitions, promotions to next grade levels and children as young as age 5 passing the Stanford University Gifted and Talented Education Grade 3 Math programs with 100% . Many of her students have been selected for John Hopkins Center of Talented Youth Search.

Rennu’s Reading, Math & Science Programs have children as young as age 2.3 mastering fluent reading & speaking skills, with confidence and the ability to think for themselves. Her curriculum is unique to Genius Kids Learning Center is now available online for the benefit of students who are unable to attend a center. Parents are astounded at the results and difference in their children within a short period of time of enrolling at Genius Kids. Genius Kids was recently rated "Best of the East Bay" in Services by East Bay Express Publication and was awarded "Most Likely Place to find a Silicon Valley Inventor".

Dhillon believes that in order to survive in today’s fast paced ever changing world, we need to create confident, happy & successful citizens who will become future leaders. “Our children are our future and their brains are like fired waiting to be ignited. Genius Kids is the instrument of ignition and inspiration, which has to be applied at the right time, between birth and age 6.”

Her staff is personally trained by her to work with children individually advocating free expression and out of the box thinking in the classrooms. The instructors and curriculum are designed to promote independent thinking always encouraging children to assimilate what is learnt in class with real life situations. Recently Mood Indico Magazine described her as “Making The Difference, one child and one woman at a time”.

A firm believer that every human has the right to receive proper education, Rennu founded the successful San Francisco India Pageants, a scholarship pageant in 1993 (now been renamed India Bay Area Pageants). This high quality production provides an opportunity where young Indo-American men and women from Northern California showcase their talents, competing for cash scholarships. She has trained her winners to win several national pageants - such as Miss Asia American and Miss Asian California Pageants.

Her company Indiva Productions produced and organized branded shows - SONY TV Asia Boogie Woogie Dance Competition in Northern California, Mode-de-Paris Model Contest, and the West Coast finals for SURTARANG - the largest Talent Search for Singers in India. Her finalists have placed and won several shows. Dhillon conceptualized, produced and hosted the first Miss & Mrs. NRI Global Pageant, on October 16, 2005 in California which has now been billed as the largest pageant for women of Indian origin.

COMMUNITY WORK Rennu has personally trained as a model/makeup artist with some of the top modeling agencies such as Elite Models in London. She is very active in the local community on women & children issues, choreographing several programs cultural program. She is also actively involved in film production & has assisted well-known producers/directors in casting for their movies. She has recently produced 2 successful fund -raiser fashion shows featuring SATYA PAUL line of clothing with Pratham and Home of Hope Organizations.

She is the host, producer and director for a weekly radio show called Genius Kids on Air on KLOK 1170 AM in the Bay Area, and produces a local TV internet show called Win With Words. She continues to strive to develop curriculum to create Future Leaders.

She can be reached at rennud@gmail.com or 510-364-4033