Ahmed Mohamed, 14, arrested over clock mistaken for bomb
A 14-year-old boy was arrested by police in Texas after a homemade clock he wanted to show his school teachers was mistaken for a bomb.
Ahmed Mohamed told US media that he had made a clock at home and brought it into MacArthur High School in Irving to show his engineering teacher.
Another teacher saw it and, concerned that it looked like a bomb, alerted the school authorities who called police.
Ahmed Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News that he loved robotics and engineering and wanted to show his teachers what he could do.
He said his engineering teacher told him "that's really nice", but advised him "not to show any other teachers".
The teenager said that another teacher became aware of it when the device beeped during the lesson.
"She was like, it looks like a bomb," he said.
He said the teacher kept the clock, and later in the day he was pulled out lessons and interviewed by the school's headteachers and four police officers.
He has reportedly been suspended from school for three days
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UPDATE:
US 'clock boy' Ahmed Mohamed to move to Qatar
Ahmed has accepted a scholarship from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, where he will study.
He met US President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday.
The Qatar Foundation is providing a full scholarship for his secondary and undergraduate education, according to a news release.
According to his family, Ahmed will be enrolled in the Qatar Foundation's "Young Innovators" program and his whole family will relocate with him to Qatar.
Ahmed withdrew from his Texas school shortly after the clock incident.
Who Ahmed has met:
US President Barack Obama
Google co-founder Sergey Brin
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
National Geographic Society CEO Gary Knel (above)
Queen Rania of Jordan
Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore
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