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He finished elementary school at Rameswaram elementary school

he completed his secondary schooling at Schwartz Higher Secondary School.

He was an average student but had the will to learn. He loved mathematics and spent hours studying the subject

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During the second world war, there was a great demand for tamarind seeds . He would collect those seeds and sell them in the market. He got one anna as a day's collection

Abdul Kalam earned his first wages by helping his cousin in catching the newspaper bundles thrown out of a moving train during the Second World War.

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he wanted to leave Rameswaram for further studies at district head quarters, Ramanathapuram.

Kalam went on to attend Saint Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli, then affiliated with the University of Madras, he graduated in physics in 1954

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he was not happy with his original degree, henceforth
He moved to Madras in 1955 to study aerospace engineering in MIT (Madras Institute of Technology).

After graduating from the Madras Institute of Technology in 1960, Kalam joined the Aeronautical Development Establishment of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as a scientist. He started his career by designing a small hovercraft.

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IN 1969, he worked in  the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He directed India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle.

Between the 1970s and 1990s, Kalam made an effort to develop the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and SLV-III projects, both of which proved to be successful.

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In 1981  he Received  the Phadma Bhushan  for his work with ISRO and DRDO and his role as a scientific advisor to the Government

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In 2002, APJ Abdul kalam  was elected as president of India.

Dr. Kalam laid out the various challenges that lie before space scientists and stressed that the greatest of all challenges is to use science to the benefit of humankind, particularly to the benefit of the poorest communities and people around the world. He outlines various areas and applications in which space science and exploration can help contribute to greater human development.

Kalam supported the need of Uniform Civil Code in India, keeping in view the population of the country. In 2007 he leaves the President post. After leaving office,

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After 1983,DRDO developed several missiles under the leadership of Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.  Dr Kalam has made a great contribution in the production of missiles. Dr Kalam is known as the father of India's missile programme.

He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.

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he launched a programme for the youth of India called the "What Can I Give Movement", with a central theme of defeating corruption.

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During his tenure as President of India, Kalam made it a priority to meet as many young people as possible one-to-one. He met almost a record-breaking target of 500,000 during his five-year term. When he left office in 2007, he was conferred a loving title of “Kalam Chacha” (“Uncle Kalam”) because he would receive hundreds of emails a day from young people inspired by his encouragement to “dream, dream, dream!” He is said to have replied in person to nearly all of them.