Built Different: How a Lima Factory Girl Earned Her Viterbi Degree
May 05, 2026
May 05, 2026
LOS ANGELES, California, May 5 -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering posted the following news:
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Built Different: How a Lima Factory Girl Earned Her Viterbi Degree
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Maria Minaya Astola was four years old the first time a machine drew blood.
She had been pretending to be one of the workers -the way she always did when the plastic bag factory fell quiet. Her parents, immigrants from the small A . . .
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Built Different: How a Lima Factory Girl Earned Her Viterbi Degree
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Maria Minaya Astola was four years old the first time a machine drew blood.
She had been pretending to be one of the workers -the way she always did when the plastic bag factory fell quiet. Her parents, immigrants from the small A . . .