15-Year-Old Inventor Wows MIT (Video)

A 15-year-old inventor from Sierra Leone became the youngest person in history to be invited to MIT's "Visiting Practitioner's Program" after creating batteries and a generator out of materials picked from trash bins in his neighborhood.

15-Year-Old Inventor Wows MIT (Youtube)

Kelvin Doe, a completely self-taught engineer,  manages his own radio station in Sierra Leone where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker "DJ Focus."

The young inventor powers his radio station using a generator he created from a deteriorating voltage stabilizer he found in the trash, while an antenna allows his neighbors to tune in to his regular broadcasts.

Doe is now expanding his radio station by employing his young friends as reporters and challenging them to go out and interview people at local events such as at soccer games and parties.

MIT discovered Doe during Innovate Salone, a national competition for high school students held in Sierra Leone by an international organization called Global Minimum.

MIT doctoral student David Sengeh, who helps run Innovate Salone, recognized Doe's skills right away.

"It’s very inspirational," Sengeh said. "He created a generator because he needed it."

With help from Sengeh, Doe was able to travel to New York for the 2012 World Maker Faire, where he sat on a "Meet the Young Makers" panel with four American inventors.

Check out below a video above from THNKR which features details Doe's remarkable story: