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Water Wonderful World Innovator Karlis Noel On Overcoming Challenges By Creating Solutions - Story and Photos by Stan Bishop Whenever you speak to Karlis Noel, he never hesitates to tell you right away that he’s no rocket scientist. In fact, this high school dropout readily admits that while having a sound grounding in formal education is important, sometimes the classroom is not the best place to get it. Nevertheless, Noel went on to become a certified Systems Engineer – most of his education in the field self-taught, mind you -- and now creates solutions for some of the world’s greatest challenges. All this from the former student who glanced sneakily at pages of Popular Engineering and Popular Science magazines while his teachers were at the chalkboard. 54 SL-YOU | It’s All About Business www.slyoumag.com | September-October 2019