{"id":50521,"date":"2012-11-25T04:36:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T04:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=50521"},"modified":"2012-11-25T04:36:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T04:36:04","slug":"teen-engineering-prodigy-from-sierra-leone-impresses-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=50521","title":{"rendered":"Teen engineering prodigy from Sierra Leone impresses MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leonean, David Sengeh, a doctoral student working\u00a0at MIT\u2019s Media Lab in the USA, earlier this year launched in Sierra Leone a national high school innovation challenge, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmin.org\/innovate-salone\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Innovate Salone<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>through an international organization named Global Minimum. \u00a0<em>(Photo: 16 year old Kelvin Doe, aka DJ Focus)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through this successful competition,\u00a0among\u00a0many other young Sierra Leonean inventors,\u00a0David met 16 year old Kelvin Doe (aka DJ Focus) who this year was invited to participate in a \u201cMeet the Young Makers\u201d panel in America. \u00a0Kelvin is the youngest person in history to be invited to the \u201cVisiting Practitioner\u2019s Program\u201d at MIT!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/11\/14\/diy-africa-empowering-a-new-sierra-leone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click on this link<\/a> to read David Sengeh\u2019s article as presented to CNN and view Kelvin below during his exciting trip to the USA and MIT.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"320\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F7lVkgS7fPo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"500\" height=\"320\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F7lVkgS7fPo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leonean, David Sengeh, a doctoral student working\u00a0at MIT\u2019s Media Lab in the USA, earlier this year launched in Sierra Leone a national high school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,11448,7010,1],"tags":[11798,14178,14179,14180,7205,14181,11746,14182,566],"class_list":["post-50521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-local-news","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-a-de-mek-am-competition","tag-david-sengh","tag-innovate-salone","tag-kelvin-doe","tag-lam-tech-foundation","tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","tag-mit-media-lab","tag-mit-visiting-practitioners-program","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}