Ahmed Mohamed withdraws from school, attends Google Science Fair

The ninth-grader was decked out in a NASA T-shirt.

The elder Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News that “Ahmed said, ‘I don’t want to go to MacArthur”. Mohamed was invited to the event last week by Google, and, according to a report from USA Today, received a warm welcome, touring the booths and taking pictures with finalists.

The anonymous blogger/engineer behind the article “Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock and Ourselves” also dissected the clock.

“Cool clock, Ahmed, want to bring it to the White House?” Obama should have had someone fact check this story before proclaiming Mohamed emblematic of what makes America great. Oh, and let us not forget some of the technology leaders such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Box CEO Aaron Levie inviting Mohamed to visit their Silicon Valley offices. Across the country, people speculated about whether the situation would have been handled differently if a dark-skinned boy named Ahmed had been a white boy named Adam.

Look out, Ahmed. They’re coming for you.

He also talked with local students visiting the science fair being held on Google’s headquarters in Mountain View. Ahmed mingled and posed for selfies with science fair participants. We’d love it!’ Twitter tweeted.

He said the family were still unsure where they would move to next.

Despite the tremendous outpouring of public support for Ahmed from the tech community and many politicians, his father claims the period has been extremely stressful. “You have to say, ‘What is your motivation?” He made small robotics, fixed people’s phones and assembled a remote that could turn on projectors at school.

Now of course, it’s possible that the teachers and administrators would have freaked out and had a white kid who brought the same device to school arrested. He was just one of those kids that created stuff’. 21, Ahmed Mohamed is no longer a student at MacArthur High School. Seeking to impress teachers, the 14-year-old built a homemade clock. Instead she became suspicious. They called the police.

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a Muslim scholar who dabbles in robotics and attended a Dallas space highschool, touched off a social media firestorm with many seeing his the arrest as being tied to his faith. He was interrogated by the police even though it is illegal to interrogate a minor in absence of his patents.

The sudden attention, while welcome, has been overwhelming for the family and Ahmed hasn’t been eating or sleeping well, his father said.