One of the newest employees at SpaceX has been described as a child prodigy who skipped elementary school and will graduate from college this week at the tender age of 14.
Kairan said he's excited to join SpaceX, in part because it was"one of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability."
SpaceX will not need to obtain special permission to bring the youngster on board, as he meets the minimum legal age to work under Washington state Photo of Kairan Quazi meeting California Gov. Gavin Newsom during a dedication of Santa Clara University's $300 million STEM research center in 2021. Neither Kairan nor SpaceX, which is owned by Elon Musk, responded immediately to requests for comment from CBS MoneyWatch Monday.
an ABC News affiliate in San Francisco that she began noticing her son was intellectually gifted when he began speaking in full sentences at age 2. He left elementary school after finishing the third grade and enrolled in community college at age 9. Kairan transferred toUniversity at age 11. In college, he had a multiyear internship at Intel as an artificial intelligence research fellow.
Kairan will receive his bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from SCU on Saturday — the youngest graduate in the school's 172-year history, the San Jose Mercury News At SpaceX, Kairan said on LinkedIn he will be assigned to the engineering team at Starlink, the company's satellite broadband internet service.
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