MIT professor and entrepreneur at age 13 - The Mundo.es

acute childhood voice, Quin Etnyre often summarizes his experiences as ‘cool’ or ‘funny’. It is a slim 13 year old boy who likes swim, play volleyball and fart joke. Last year, he founded a company and it has begun to teach students of Institute of Technology Massachusetts (MIT, its acronym in English).

“Sometimes I get a little bored in class,” says Quin to THE WORLD. The child continues to study in his public school in a small town in California, between San Francisco and Los Angeles, but is able to solve the Rubik’s cube in 16 seconds and learned to program on the internet when I was 10.

just three years, he was able to solve mathematical problems and puzzles built with a rapidity that astonished his family. He started playing with Lego robots, but soon, he remained small. Browsing the internet, found that was a code that could decide how their own robots behaved. The Web found Arduino kits, open source project born in Italy in 2005 with circuits and software for programming. “It’s all free,” she says, bouncy.

detector flatulence

His parents, family doctors, at first did not understand what made her only child, but when they realized it was something special, supported his passion and promoted the small inventor. On the eleventh birthday he was given a training session on Arduino at the headquarters of an electronics company in Colorado, SpakFun Electronics. Quin says that one day would like to work in a company as well.

With what he learned, in just two months, Quin began building sensors capable of detecting light, temperature or force to install in small robots directed especially to the young. To teach children how electronics with something I could amuse them, invented the Gas Cap, a cap with red lights connected to a sensor of methane, a component of flatulence.

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websites, build this detector that costs about $ 100 (74 euros) and is easy to handle, “I throw a fart in the methane sensor, wifi transmit that information to the cap as lights l LED light to let your friends see how horrible it has been . “

passion for electronics

Since spring 2012, Quin and explanations circuits sold through his own company, Qtechknow. “I wanted to make it easier for people to start with electronic” says the boy, who works every day in company with the help of his mother, Karen, was responsible for the “financial aspects”.

Quin usually takes its routes to the classes given in electronics fairs or in specialized institutions. Sometimes, to get the attention of the public, begins by explaining how detector farts , which he laughingly describes impassive public works.

This year, Quin has debuted with the group of alumni and friends of MIT Southern California. Most of your audience are men that will double or triple the age. “It’s fun. Although I like teaching children. Are more open and bind to all “says Quin, who has pledged to give more classes with the MIT group in the coming months.

still have not been to the headquarters in Cambridge, but is looking forward to it and think you can study there in a few years. It will go through the admission test, but 13 years has already dealt with some of its engineers , who explained what he could do at MIT.

Experiments in the garage

His parents try to

Quin have a normal life despite his extraordinary talents. not have changed schools, we carry sports afternoons and control which gives interviews . “Yet let us look at your e-mail company,” explains his father, Ethan, who tells him about breakfast requests from the press. At the same time, the Etnyre know that your child is much faster than any of its peers.

Quin is already accustomed to public speaking and lead groups. At least once a month to meet their cousins, friends and other kids interested in electronics in the garage of his home, become a workshop to share what he has learned and made experiments . Try propose entertaining ideas, how to connect a game simulator Google Earth.

spring, also made a presentation at the office of your school district to propose more e practice in schools. “With a little luck, you go into the curriculum”, says the boy. Quin dream of founding his own school: would be “more interactive” and older students help younger . For now, you like to study at MIT, becoming developer of websites and work in New York because it is “really cool.”