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Dec 29, 2016 · At the age of 10, he started scavenging for scrap electronics parts from dump sites after school for his inventions. Kelvin, together with his team, was a winner of Global Minimum's Innovate Salone 2012 -- the inaugural high school innovation challenge in Sierra Leone.
Oct 18, 2016 · He was the child prodigy from Sierra Leone who built his own batteries, an FM transmitter, a sound amplifier, a three-channel mixer and a mic receiver from garbage and his own tinkering...
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- A Great Little Feat
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Today’s world is full of electronic devices that become obsolete in no time. That makes for tons of tech garbage. However, we never seem to ask where it all goes. As a matter of fact, that waste ends up in countries like Sierra Leone, as well as Ghana, China, and India. In all these countries there are places, generally near poor neighborhoods, whe...
Kelvin Doe thought there had to be some way to solve the problem. He went to the library of his old school and there he found some dilapidated and outdated engineeringbooks. However, they gave him the information he needed to do what he wanted. That was to make a battery to give him more hours of energy to carry out his experiments. He succeeded an...
In Sierra Leone, there was an innovation contest for high school students. Kelvin participated in the competition with his inventions and became one of the finalists. It was there that David Sengeh, a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), met him. He was amazed. With pieces of garbage, this boy had managed to create t...
Kelvin Doe’s first breakthrough came when he built his own FM radio transmitter at the tender age of 13. This extraordinary achievement not only displayed his technical prowess but also marked the beginning of a series of innovations that would change his life and the lives of those around him.
Jun 17, 2013 · Kelvin became the youngest person in history to be invited to the "Visiting Practitioner's Program" at MIT.
The rest of the time, says teen inventor Kelvin Doe, people live in darkness in his hometown, a district of Freetown, the capital. Commercial batteries are costly, so at age 13, he started making his own using basic supplies: acid, soda, metal, a tin cup, and tape.
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Dec 20, 2013 · Kelvin Doe, a teen in Sierra Leone, spent the better part of his youth digging through trash bins in search of electronics parts. Finding the junk was relatively easy. Figuring out how to build functional electronic devices with that junk required great imagination and intense focus of mind.
