From GED to PhD

Physicist Kira Burt dropped out of school at 16. Now she teaches students that anyone can be a scientist. At the age of 16, Kira Burt dropped out of high school in Spokane, Washington, and started working odd jobs in food service and retail. She couldn't picture it then, but 16 years later, she would be sitting in a cleanroom at CERN, piecing together part of a detector, working on her PhD in physics. Burt had always been curious. When she was a kid, she would get in trouble for mixing solutions...