Certificate World Records

Zoilo Adalia was 11 years old on October 6, 2015, when the free online learning platform Alison awarded a certificate for its course Understanding the Ebola Virus and How You Can Avoid It. In a phone screen recording, Zoilo opens the certificate with that name and award date, then follows its verification link to Alison's own learner verification page, which confirms the course, the completion date and a 95% score on the final assessment. Zoilo's stated date of birth, September 4, 2004, puts the age that day at 11 years and one month. At an age when most kids are dodging homework, Zoilo passed a course on dodging Ebola.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when SAP Learning issued him a course completion badge for Getting Started with SAP Emarsys, a free beginner course on running marketing campaigns with SAP's customer engagement software, on March 8, 2026. In the video he shows the printed certificate in his name, in a clear plastic sleeve on the carpet, with the issue date, the badge and a verification link, and says he is the youngest SAP certified in the whole world. RecordSetter opened that link on SAP's own badge page, which shows the badge issued to him on March 8, 2026, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. Campaign launched at 16.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when IBM issued him its Big Data Foundations Level 1 badge on March 26, 2026, for completing Big Data 101, a free beginner course on IBM's Cognitive Class learning site. In the video he shows the printed IBM certificate in his name, in a clear plastic sleeve on the carpet, with the issue date, the badge and a Credly verification link, and says he is the youngest IBM Level 1 certified in the whole world. RecordSetter opened the Credly link printed on the certificate, which shows IBM issuing the badge to him, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied; the record covers IBM course certificates and badges, which are separate from IBM's exam-based professional certifications. Big data, decoded at 16.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when he finished Building AI-Powered Search with MongoDB Vector Search, a free MongoDB University course that ends with a short skill check, on February 23, 2026. In the video he shows the printed MongoDB proof of completion in his name, in a clear plastic sleeve on the carpet, along with its MongoDB Skill badge for Vector Search Fundamentals, and says he is the youngest MongoDB certified. RecordSetter opened the Credly link printed on the certificate, which shows MongoDB issuing the badge to him on February 23, 2026, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied; the record covers MongoDB course certificates, which are separate from MongoDB's exam-based certifications. Vector search, mastered at 16.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when he earned LinkedIn's Marketing Strategy Certification, awarded for passing a free online exam on planning advertising campaigns on LinkedIn, on February 18, 2026. In the video he shows his laminated certificate from LinkedIn Marketing Labs, with his name, the certificate number and its verification link, and says he earned it at 16. RecordSetter matched the certificate number on LinkedIn's own verification page, which lists him as the student with a completion date of February 18, 2026, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. His marketing plan clearly works.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when he completed two free Anthropic Academy courses on working with Claude, "Introduction to agent skills" and "Introduction to subagents", on March 22, 2026. In the video he leafs through three printed Anthropic certificates of completion in clear plastic sleeves and says he is the youngest person certified by Anthropic. RecordSetter scanned the QR codes on two of the certificates, which open Anthropic Academy's own verification pages showing his name and a completion date of March 22, 2026, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied; the record covers course certificates, which are separate from Anthropic's exam-based certifications. Agent skills, unlocked at 16.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when he passed the final test of "International trade in fisheries and aquaculture products", a free online course from the FAO elearning Academy of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, on March 18, 2026. In the video he shows the printed certificate in his name, with its date, verification link and QR code, and says he is the youngest person certified by the FAO Academy. RecordSetter entered the certificate's code on the FAO elearning Academy's own verification page, which lists it as valid in his name and issued March 18, 2026, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. Global fish trade policy, conquered at 16.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when he completed an Amazon Web Services training course on responding to a ransomware attack in the cloud, AWS Security Incident Response - Ransomware Use Case, on February 17, 2026. In the video he introduces himself and shows the AWS Training & Certification completion certificate in his name, in a clear plastic sleeve on the carpet. RecordSetter read the name, course and completion date on the certificate in the footage and took his age from the date of birth he supplied; the record covers AWS course certificates, which are separate from AWS's exam-based certifications. Ransomware, consider yourself warned.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when he completed Social Media Marketing, one of the free online business courses in the HP Foundation's HP LIFE program, on January 18, 2026. In the video he shows his laminated HP LIFE certificate of completion in his name and says he is the youngest person to be certified by HP LIFE. RecordSetter matched the certificate's serial number on HP LIFE's own certificate page, which shows his name, the course and the date, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. The likes can follow.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when the International Free Evangelical Bible School, a tuition-free online Bible school based in the Netherlands, awarded him its Diploma of Biblical Studies on August 8, 2026. In the video he shows the printed diploma with his name, the school and the award date, then leafs through the five course certificates that led to it, in Bible study and tools, introduction to the Bible, Old Testament, New Testament and Christian theology, each earned by passing the school's exam. RecordSetter read the diploma and certificates in the footage, checked the school's diploma requirements on its own website, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. Five exams stood between him and the diploma, and he passed every one.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when the UK online course provider Training Express awarded him its Level 7 Diploma in Health and Social Care, a self-paced course on leading care teams, safeguarding and patient care with a multiple-choice final exam, on September 9, 2026. In the video he stands in front of the shelves of his book collection holding the framed diploma, which shows his name and the course title, and says he earned it at 16. RecordSetter matched the diploma to the certificate file Training Express hosts on its own website, which shows his name and the award date, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. It is never too early to learn how to look after people.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when Oxford Home Study Centre awarded him its Advanced Diploma in Child Psychology (QLS Level 5), a self-paced online course rated at 60 CPD hours, on August 1, 2026. In the video he stands in front of the shelves of his book collection holding the framed diploma, which shows his name, the course title, the CPD hours and the award date, and says he earned it at 16. RecordSetter read the diploma's certificate number and date in the footage and in the PDF copy he had already sent, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. Not many people study child psychology while still a teenager themselves.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when TeacherRecord issued him its certificate for a 120-hour online course in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), the standard qualification for teaching English abroad, on July 27, 2026. In the video he holds up the certificate in front of the shelves of his Islamic book library, then turns the camera to its QR code and the course transcript listing all 13 modules, completed with distinction. RecordSetter matched the certificate number on TeacherRecord's own verification page, which shows his name and the issue date, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. Class is in session.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, who was 16 at the time, received 19 edX course certificates on August 27, 2026, from ten New York Institute of Finance courses in credit, financial reporting and stock trading to Harvard's Fundamentals of TinyML and Dartmouth's Omnichannel Strategy and Management. In the video, he introduces himself in his family's library, then lays five of the New York Institute of Finance certificates on the floor and reads out the August 27 date on each one. RecordSetter checked all 19 on edX's own verification pages, each in his name, for a different course and dated that day. Most people would call one certificate a good day.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, who was 16 at the time, earned certificates from programs created by 44 different companies, from Google, Microsoft and Meta courses on Coursera to job simulations for JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and British Airways on Forage and virtual work experience with Rolls-Royce and Airbus on Springpod. RecordSetter checked a certificate from each company on the issuer's own verification page in his name and counted each company once, leaving out universities, charities, government bodies and course providers. In the video, an SG Digital reporter interviews him and his father on the floor of the family's book-lined library. Not many people have trained at a bank, an airline and a law firm in the same year.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, who was 16 at the time, earned online course certificates from 83 different universities, among them Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London, mostly through Coursera, edX and FutureLearn. RecordSetter checked a certificate from each university on the issuer's own verification page in his name and counted every university once, leaving out company courses and continuing medical education certificates. In the video, a Public News reporter interviews him on a sofa while his family holds up his framed awards. That is a world tour of campuses without leaving Faisalabad.