At age seven, he's the youngest member of the Antique Fan Collectors Association. Mitchell Walton is not your average first grader, because he is a full-fledged fan fanatic.

From the tall oscillators to the floor models, he has the low-down on every fan in Kahoa Elementary School.

"The motor might be very dirty and probably very good. Look at those blades? Yeah, they're very dirty. You think that's plastic or metal? It's plastic," he said.

This guy knows his fans. Mitchell and his computer teacher are the only members of the modest fan club. Mrs. Cordes had Mitchell work on one of her fans.

"I said do you think that needs cleaning? Well, yeah I do. Well, when I got that out he said do you suppose I could keep this fan? It was just something that he needed to have," he said.

Turns out, Mitchell needs a lot of fans.

Mitchell's collection has grow to more than 130 fans, and his love of fans even affects his fashion choices. His world revolves around fans -- from his clocks to his taste in chairs.

The obsession took some getting used to for the rest of the family.

"At first, I think it was kind of shocking that we would be buying every fan we saw. But as a teacher, I think it's great that he has a passion," said Deirdre Walton, mother.

That passion has Mitchell and his dad working in the shop every night.

"We want to see how far he wants to take it. I'm not going to shoot him away from it and we have fun with it when we go to conventions," said Wade Walton, father.

It's at those fan conventions where Mitchell is beyond his years.

"Some days you get the feeling he's not seven anymore. He seems a 20-year-old guy, and he's out there I just let him go with those guys. He asks them questions. He's always in there like he's one of the guys," Wade Walton said.

Mitchell isn't sure just exactly what it was that got this fan passion underway, but one of his most popular theories is that there were probably some fans in the hospital room where he was born and maybe that's why he loves fans so much.