Incredible! 14-year-old Schoolboy Arrested for His Homemade Clock, Gets Obama & Zukerberg Invitations

Posted by Odinaka on Thu 17th Sep, 2015 - tori.ng

Time to meet the President...Muslim schoolboy, 14, who was arrested after school mistook his science project clock for a BOMB gets Obama invite to the White House.

The Muslim teenager arrested for bringing his home-made clock into school which teachers claimed 'looked like a bomb' has said he will go to the White House to visit Barack Obama after the President extended an invite to him earlier in the day.

14-year old Ahmed Mohamed, received messages of commendation from across the globe today after an image of him being handcuffed and escorted out of MacArthur High School, in Irving, Texas, went viral.

Ahmed Mohamed led away from school in Irving, Texas in handcuffs

after teachers mistook his home made clock for a bomb

Among the outpouring of commendations was a message from President Obama inviting Ahmed to bring his clock to the White House, an offer that the teenager said he would accept this evening.

Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg also acknowledged him via his official page and as well invited him to the social media headquarters to meet the billionaire entreprenuer.

Speaking after his release, the teen said he would be visiting the White House

to see Barack Obama after the President extended an invite to him

Speaking at a press conference on CBS, Ahmed also thanked Obama, Democrat Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton and Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg for their messages of support, saying he is 'pleased' they oppose what happened to him.

Ahmed was arrested on Monday after he used old circuit boards and wires to create a digital clock and brought it into MacArthur High School to show his engineering teacher.

See Obama's tweet to the teenager below:

While the engineering teacher approved, Ahmed got into trouble after the device started beeping while in an English class, and the second teacher mistook it for a bomb. The school's principal called police, and Ahmed then says he was arrested, handcuffed and taken to juvenile detention.

While it was initially reported that Ahmed might be charged with creating a bomb hoax at the school, today he was cleared of all charges.
Addressing his supporters, he said: "Thank you to all my supporters on Twitter, Facebook, and social media. I would never have got this far if it wasn't for you guys. Not just you guys, but everybody."

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg also extended a hand of commendation to the youngster

Messages of support - Mark Zuckerberg, Hillary Clinton and Bobak Ferdoswi, an American systems engineer at NASA.