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Texas Teen Ahmed Mohamed Arrested for Clock Gets Warm Welcome From Silicon Valley

2015-09-17 9 Dailymotion

The tech community has a message for Ahmed Mohamed, the the tech savvy Texas teen who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school: Just keep building.<br />Mohamed, a freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was taken into police custody on Monday when his homemade digital clock was mistaken for a bomb by school officials and police.<br />Since the incident, Mohamed has been fielding a slew of invitations from some of the biggest names in the tech world.<br />"Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest.<br />The future belongs to people like Ahmed," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote.<br />"Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I'd love to meet you.<br />Keep building."<br />Google extended Mohamed an invitation to its science fair and said he'd be welcome to show off the clock he built too.

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