Meet Kelvin Doe: The 13-year-old who turned discarded materials into a battery, generator and transmitter before receiving an invitation to MIT at 15 |
At 13, Kelvin Doe was searching through piles of discarded materials in Freetown for things most people would have left behind. Acid, soda, scrap metal and broken components became part of a series of homemade experiments that gradually moved from a battery to a generator and then a transmitter. The teenager had no conventional electronics…