Imgurians came out in full support of Ahmed Mohamed, the 14 year old school student who was arrested after his teachers mistook his homemade clock for a bomb.
On Monday, the teenage inventor stepped with his outsized sneaker on the intersection of several American fault lines – Islamophobia, technology, school violence – when he showed up at school with a homemade clock that his teachers took for a bomb.
In the days since he has become a a symbol and a civics lesson far more complex than anything in his ninth-grade social studies class. He has received a call from a Saudi prince, a tweet from President Obama and invitations to Silicon Valley. And he has slept a total of about eight hours.
His parents immigrated from Sudan, but Ahmed’s rise to fame started in the most American way: he was the new kid at school in Texas.
Last year he attended Sam Houston middle school, where everyone knew him as the kid who makes crazy contraptions. His classmates brought him electronics to fix and even bought some of his gadgets. He had an identity. He was the Inventor Kid.
In the days since he has become a a symbol and a civics lesson far more complex than anything in his ninth-grade social studies class. He has received a call from a Saudi prince, a tweet from President Obama and invitations to Silicon Valley. And he has slept a total of about eight hours.
His parents immigrated from Sudan, but Ahmed’s rise to fame started in the most American way: he was the new kid at school in Texas.
Last year he attended Sam Houston middle school, where everyone knew him as the kid who makes crazy contraptions. His classmates brought him electronics to fix and even bought some of his gadgets. He had an identity. He was the Inventor Kid.
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