Muslim Boy Handcuffed for Making Clock is Guest at Google Fair
HOUSTON: Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy, who was arrested last week in the U.S. after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb was the surprise guest at the fifth annual Google Science Fair in California.
Ahmed, a Sudanese-American engineering enthusiast from Irving in Texas who captured the most attention of all never entered the competition. Young scientists showed off projects that are finalists in the fair.
He visited the booths of finalists whose faces lit up when they recognised him. He also talked with local students visiting the science fair being held on Google's headquarters in Mountain View.
"We learned about you in school," a student said.
Google puts on the science fair each year with the goal of inspiring scientific curiosity and exploration among young people. The theme this year: "It's your turn to change the world.
Ninth grader Ahmed had brought a digital clock, made from a pencil case, to his school in Irving to show it to his teacher who mistook the clock to be a bomb. Hours later, he was handcuffed and arrested by school resource officers as part of "standard procedure".
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