Kelvin Doe is a child from a very poor district of Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital city. The area is in such 1 shape that the lights only come up once a week. At the age of 10, he started 2 rubbish dumps (垃圾场) for small electronics parts after school. Then he would spend his time 3 how they work. 4 he was very young and didn't receive traditional engineering education, this didn't 5 Doe's dream of helping solve the local problems in his community.
At the age of 13, after he tried many times, he finally 6 a generator (发电机) using materials he had 7 around the house or from rubbish dumps. From then on, Kelvin Doe became a completely 8 engineer. He then built a radio station by using recycled materials. He reported news and played music under the 9 of DJ Focus and 10 his friends as workers in the station. "They call me DJ Focus. I am confident. I always 11 if I focus, I can complete anything seeming to be 12," Doe said in a YouTube video.
He had 13 been more than 10 miles from his home in Freetown until he attended a national invention competition. There, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 14 such a smart boy, David Sengeh, a PhD student at MIT, recognized his amazing 15 right away. "Doe's story is very 16. He made a generator because he 17 it," Sengeh said. "Doe's 18 in the YouTube video have had a big 19 on me and on millions of people all over the world. In Sierra Leone, other young people suddenly feel they can be 20 Doe." Kelvin was later invited to give a talk at the TEDxTeen in 2012 to Harvard Students. "Creativity can be found in places where one does not expect to find it," said Kelvin during the talk.
