15-Yr-Old Kelvin Doe Wows M.I.T.

[DeSwiss]

THNKR ·Published on Nov 16, 2012

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15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.

Kelvin became the youngest person in history to be invited to the "Visiting Practitioner's Program" at MIT. THNKR had exclusive access to Kelvin and his life-changing journey - experiencing the US for the first time, exploring incredible opportunities, contending with homesickness, and mapping out his future.

Here is a link to the Bobby Fala track in the video on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/karen-kilberg/kpei-ragga

Photos courtesy of Adam Cohn (http://www.adamcohn.com/) and Paula Aguilera

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[ErikJ]

1. Kelvin- Good name.

Wikipedia:
The kelvin is a unit of measurement for temperature. It is one of the seven base units in the International System of Units (SI) and is assigned the unit symbol K.

The Kelvin scale is an absolute, thermodynamic temperature scale using as its null point absolute zero, the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases in the classical description of thermodynamics.

The kelvin is defined as the fraction 1⁄273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water (exactly 0.01 °C or 32.018 °F).[1] In other words, it is defined such that the triple point of water is exactly 273.16 K.

[DeSwiss]

2. I believe we will all be using ''this'' Kelvin.......

...to measure our future with. The kid gives me hope for humanity, what can I say?

- Yeah, even me......

[dotymed]

3. +10000 Hope that is much needed. n/t

[Overseas]

4. K&R. Glad to hear it.

[japple]

5. Thank you for posting this. I am grateful for glimmers of hope here and there and

was blown away by this young man's vision and light. I hope and pray his talent and insight will be nurtured by those who are advising him. He is our future.

[RBInMaine]

6. Thanks for the post. Way to Kelvin !