# 15yo Sierra Leone genius will steal your heart

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 25, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15yo-sierra-leone-genius-will-steal-your-heart/642061 "2012-11-25T14:30:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15yo-sierra-leone-genius-will-steal-your-heart/642061/1 "2012-11-25T14:30:26Z")

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this is a story of a self-taught electrical engineer from africa who got to spend some time at MIT and both WOWed and charmed everyone he met.

it’s a gorgeous bit of 10 minutes, this.

he’s equally bright and warm…

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XOLOLrUBRBY/maxresdefault.jpg "15-Yr-Old Kelvin Doe Wows M.I.T.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOLOLrUBRBY)

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15yo-sierra-leone-genius-will-steal-your-heart/642061/2 "2012-11-30T10:46:08Z")

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This was wonderful. Young Kevin has a beautiful, sincere smile. I especially enjoyed the scene of him collaborating with a standard-issue American geek. 😉