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A self-taught engineer who studied by night while working as a factory grinder has been elected to lead one of the world's top electronics societies. Gao Huijun's journey from farmworker parents to heading the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society proves determination can overcome any starting point.
Two self-taught brothers in Delhi have saved over 23,000 injured birds from their basement clinic over the past two decades. Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud treat victims of banned glass-coated kite strings that slice through wings and leave birds unable to fly.
A pet cow in Austria has joined chimps and dolphins in an elite club by learning to use sticks as tools to scratch herself. Scientists say Veronika's decade-long self-taught skill shows we've seriously underestimated how smart cattle really are.
After losing his father and becoming his family's provider at 19, Amit Kumar spent six years teaching himself acting through YouTube videos and won a national competition. Now he's raising funds for professional training that could turn his self-taught skills into a real career.
A small-town mechanic in rural India upgraded his workshop from manual repairs to laptop-based diagnostics, proving that traditional trades can thrive in the digital age. With government support and self-taught skills, Iqbal Ahmed now fixes modern vehicles that would have stumped his shop just years ago.
In a modest apartment workshop south of Nairobi, Eugene Awimbo builds rockets not for space, but for sparking curiosity in Kenya's classrooms. For over a decade, this self-taught inventor has turned passion into purpose, showing students that scientists and astronauts can come from anywhere.