14-year-old boy arrested for bringing homemade watches to school

In the city of Irving (Texas), a 14-year-old schoolboy named Ahmed Mohamed (Ahmed Mohamed) was detained by police and placed in a cell for further interrogation . The boy’s fault was only that he had made an electronic clock at home and brought them to school to show the teacher. But the teacher did not reach the teacher. Representatives of the school administration decided that this was a bomb and raised the alarm.

Ahmed is known as a radio amateur and maker, he used to make radios, repair kartings, etc. In the photo - a USB hub, which he soldered (repaired) from spare parts.


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It is unlikely that he thought that the appearance of the electronic gadget would cause such a violent reaction of adults who are not so well versed in electronics.

The homemade clock is made of a printed circuit board with multiple wires, an electronic display and a hologram of a tiger. The teacher foresaw the problems, so he warned Ahmed in advance that the work should be hidden from all other teachers and school administrations, and be carried in unnoticed. The guy did it, but when he was in class, the clock peeped in his backpack. The call quickly arrived the police. The student was detained, and his research project was confiscated.



The student was released after his parents arrived at the police station. School principal Dan Cummings (Dan Cummings) then made a public apology . True, in the letter he mentioned that it’s "undesirable for children to bring forbidden things to school." It is not entirely clear what he means here and whether he fully realized his mistake.

In support of the young engineer, many well-known personalities came out who now achieved success, but at school there were the same geeks and made crafts that were incomprehensible to those around them.

Today, the guy thanked everyone on Twitter who spoke in his support.

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UPD 17.09. Over the past two days, Mark Zuckerberg, President Barack Obama and others expressed their sympathy to Ahmed Mohamed.



Under the message of Mark Zuckerberg inviting the student to work put Like more than a million people. 23,000 comments and 146,000 posts were posted.

President Obama invited a schoolboy to the White House to promote science among young people.


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