{"id":5087,"date":"2017-05-05T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2017-05-05T13:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:28:49","slug":"kelvin-doe-the-young-genius-from-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/kelvin-doe-the-young-genius-from-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Doe The Young Genius from Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XOLOLrUBRBY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited By: Wikipedia, And YouTube\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Kelvin Doe<\/b> (born 26 October 1996 in <a title=\"Freetown\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freetown\">Freetown<\/a>), also known as <b>DJ Focus<\/b>, is a <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sierra_Leone\">Sierra Leonean<\/a> engineer. He is known for teaching himself engineering at the age of 13 and building his own radio station in Sierra Leone, where he plays music and broadcasts news under the name &#8220;DJ Focus.&#8221; He was one of the finalists in GMin&#8217;s Innovate Salone idea competition, in which Doe built a generator from scrap metals. Doe would constantly use discarded pieces of scrap to build transmitters, generators, and batteries, as well.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>As a result of his accomplishment, he received an invitation to the <a title=\"United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a> and subsequently became the youngest person to participate in the &#8220;Visiting Practitioner&#8217;s Program&#8221; at <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"MIT\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MIT\">MIT<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-CNN_5-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-CNN-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup> His accomplishments were documented by <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"@radical.media\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/@radical.media\">@radical.media<\/a> and presented on their corporate <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/YouTube\">YouTube<\/a> channel. When the video went <a title=\"Viral video\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viral_video\">viral<\/a>, the story was picked up by <a title=\"CNN\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CNN\">CNN<\/a>, <i><a title=\"NBC News\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBC_News\">NBC News<\/a><\/i>, and <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"The Huffington Post\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Huffington_Post\">The Huffington Post<\/a><\/i>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-CNN_5-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-CNN-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-HuffPost_7-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-HuffPost-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Doe subsequently was a speaker at <a title=\"TED (conference)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TED_(conference)#TEDx\">TEDxTeen<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-LM_8-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-LM-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup> and lectured to undergraduate engineering students at <a title=\"Harvard College\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvard_College\">Harvard College<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup> In May 2013, Doe signed a $100,000 solar project pact with Canadian High Speed Service Provider Sierra WiFi.<sup id=\"cite_ref-10\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-10\">[10]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Today, Kevin Doe is one of the most respected among other young African inventors.<sup id=\"cite_ref-11\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin_Doe#cite_note-11\">[11]<\/a><\/sup> He has had the opportunity of meeting various leaders of the world including former US Secretary of State <a title=\"Hillary Clinton\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, and Ghanaian President, <a title=\"Nana Akufo-Addo\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nana_Akufo-Addo\">Nana Akufo-Addo<\/a>. He has also been able to speak to young people in Africa on different platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edited By: Wikipedia, And YouTube\u00a0 Kelvin Doe (born 26 October 1996 in Freetown), also known as DJ Focus, is a Sierra Leonean engineer. He is known for teaching himself engineering at the age of 13 and building his own radio station in Sierra Leone, where he plays music and broadcasts news under the name &#8220;DJ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokutangaza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}