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Texas teen was told girls of color couldn't do well. She's graduating college at 14.

Alena McQuarter graduated from high school at 12 years old, made national headlines as the youngest person to intern at NASA and is the youngest Black person to get accepted to medical school. Now, she's just a few months away from graduating from college at the age of 14. The native Texan and teenage prodigy,  somehow, had time to start the Brown STEMGirl, an organization for girls of color who want to study science, technology, engineering and math.