{"id":125749,"date":"2016-09-09T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T23:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=125749"},"modified":"2016-09-09T19:10:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T23:10:47","slug":"blind-apple-software-engineer-defied-the-odds-from-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/blind-apple-software-engineer-defied-the-odds-from-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Apple software engineer defied the odds from birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four years ago she acquired her first Mac computer; now she\u2019s an engineer at Apple. And she happens to be blind. Jordyn Castor\u2019s real success began long before her engineering degree from Michigan State University (MSU) last December.<\/p>\n

Castor was born weighing less than two pounds, almost four months early. Being alive was the first proof of her resilience and perseverance. But the Apple software engineer has done much more than survive. She has thrived, and being blind hasn\u2019t slowed her down.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0feature written about her in college<\/a> noted:<\/p>\n

The lifesaving acts performed in a neonatal intensive care unit in Grand Rapids, Michigan, caused Castor\u2019s retinas to detach. This left her completely blind and set in motion an unforeseen chain of events that would shape Castor\u2019s life and inevitably the lives of others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Castor\u2019s college success defied the odds even by being in the engineering program at MSU. The top-ranked university noted in the story<\/a> about her in 2014 that \u201cAt MSU fewer than 13 percent of the students studying computer science are female.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Castor, a blind female in engineering school, proved to be part miracle and part warrior. And Apple figured that out early on.<\/p>\n

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