Ahmed Mohamed, son of a Sudanese immigrant in US had never thought that his trouble will end in all round appreciation and he will become an instant hit across the world. The science pupil was looking forward to show it to his teachers.
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A 14-year-old boy was arrested Monday when the digital clock he’d made from a pencil case was mistaken for a bomb.
#IStandWithAhmed trended on Twitter.
President Barack Obama has asked Mohamed if he would like to bring the clock to the White House.
Obama has also invited Ahmed to the White House, an invitation that Ahmed has eagerly accepted. But, we both know you’re enterprise software guy at heart.
Google tweeted Ahmed to bring his clock to its upcoming science fair this weekend.
“Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest”, Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. “The future belongs to people like Ahmed”, he said.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was also impressed by Ahmed’s ingenuity.
Twitter is offering Ahmed an internship.
After his release, a much relieved Ahmed spoke to the press that had gathered outside his house. “A creative, independent thinker like you is the kind of person who should be becoming a physicist”. The image of the thin teenager wearing a NASA T-shirt with his arms behind him with handcuffs on angered many who saw the photo and read about his arrest.
A 14-year-old boy says he’s still suspended from school because of an alarm clock he made that school officials thought looked like a bomb.
“And the support isn’t just for me but for everyone who has been through this”.
An officer and the principal came and took me up. Many tweets focused on the device. He said he hoped to attend MIT.
Ahmed told CNN Wednesday he was going to the White House.
Late Wednesday, they were still holding the device as evidence.
My hobby is to invent stuff.
Ahmed said he will not meet with Boyd without his lawyer.
School oficials echoed Irving police’s statement, with a district spokeswoman saying that the reaction to the clock would have been the same, regardless of skin color. They all followed procedures, she said.
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Ahmed told reporters during a news conference Wednesday afternoon that he plans to transfer to “any other school”. The family has lived in Irvine for 30 years, he said.
