11-year-old child, known as Rocket Boy, shocks the world by writing 600 lines of code to build a rocket.
An 11-year-old Chinese child, Yan Hongsen, astounded the internet with his programming and rocket-building skills. Known as 'Rocket Boy,' Yan developed a passion for astronomy at age 4. A primary student, he has 440,000 followers on Douyin and built his first rocket at age 10, despite initial failure. Yan aspires to join a top civilian defense university.
An 11 year old child has wow-ed the internet, with his skills in programming, physics, and chemistry- which led him to write a 600 lines code to build a rocket. Yan Hongsen, who hails from China has been nicknamed the ‘Rocket Boy’ by the internet.
Hongsen, was 4 years old when he witnessed the launch of the Long March-2 rocket from a launch center. The experience was exhilarating and that made him fall in love with rockets and astronomy.
He is currently a Primary Five student, according to the South China Morning Post.
On a Chinese social media site, Douyin, Yan Hongsen has about 440,000 followers where he actively documents the journey of his pursuit of astronomy and the dream of space exploration. Hongsen started studying about this field through forums with experts, online classes, and physics and chemistry books. His parents, noticing the enthusiasm and talent of their child- turned the living room into a rocket research studio - encouraging the natural talent of Yan.
The young prodigy built his first rocket and named it Sen Xing, meaning ‘moving forward’. The brilliance of the child lies not only in making a rocket successfully at the young age of 10 but in accepting failure and working to improvise, when the rocket failed in its mission and crashed. Due to some issue with the booster the parachute didn’t function and that led to crashing of the rocket. Yan, undeterred, has already started working on his second rocket.
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