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14-year-old whiz kid graduates college, hired at SpaceX

A precocious 14-year-old boy from the Bay Area will be the youngest ever graduate from Santa Clara University before starting his new job at SpaceX next month.

Kairan Quazi can’t drive, vote or even go see an R-rated movie, but on Saturday he will receive his degree in computer science and engineering that’s landed him a job at Elon Musk’s spacecraft manufacturing company.

Quazi, who is originally from Pleasanton in Alameda County, was already speaking in full sentences at just two years old, his parents told KGO.

Early on in his education career, he realized he was different from his peers.

“During third grade, it became very obvious to my teachers, my parents, and my pediatrician that mainstream education wasn’t the right path for my accelerated learning ability,” Quazi told the outlet.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/06/10/14-year-old-whiz-kid-about-to-graduate-college-already-hired-at-spacex/

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