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

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

Experiments & Discoveries News: At 13, Kelvin Doe was searching through piles of discarded materials in Freetown for things most people would have left behind. Acid, soda, scrap meta.

A 13-year-old in Freetown dug through rubbish bins for acid, soda and scrap metal, made a battery, then a generator, then a transmitter — DJ Focus's radio station ran on a rig built entirely from waste, and at 15 he was the youngest person ever invited to MIT's visiting practitioner program

When power vanishes from your city for days at a time, a resourceful teenager doesn't wait for the grid to return—he builds a radio station from garbage.