{"id":44599,"date":"2023-10-20T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/tech-community-rallies-behind-arrested-14yo-clockmaker-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:37:07","slug":"tech-community-rallies-behind-arrested-14yo-clockmaker-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/tech-community-rallies-behind-arrested-14yo-clockmaker-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech community rallies behind arrested 14yo clockmaker – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The global tech startup community has rallied behind a 14-year-old boy that was arrested at his school after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb.<\/p>\n

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Ahmed Mohamed is passionate about robotics and inventing, and was excited to show his creation to his teachers.<\/p>\n

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But instead he was promptly taken in handcuffs to a youth detention centre and interrogated by five police, before being suspended from school \u2013 all because of a simple homemade clock.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed’s sister asked me to share this photo. A NASA shirt! pic.twitter.com\/nR4gt992gB<\/p>\n

\u2014 Anil Dash (@anildash) September 16, 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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But Ahmed seems to be getting the last laugh at least, with some of the largest tech startups in the world reaching out to him and offering their support and services, as Tech Crunch reports.<\/p>\n

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The likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Box, Reddit and even NASA have made some sort of comment regarding this story, and it looks like Ahmed has quite a bright future ahead of him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe love building things at Twitter too. Would you considering interning with us?\u201d the social networking giant tweeted.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t let this stop your creativity, come hang out at Autodesk and we\u2019ll make something new together,\u201d Carl Bass said.<\/p>\n

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Also on Ahmed\u2019s to-do list now is a chance to see a Mars rover, a reserved seat at the Google Science Fair, and a trip to meet the president.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCool clock, Ahmed,\u201d Barack Obama tweeted. \u201cWant to bring it to the White House?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe should inspire more kids like you to like science.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Smartwatch manufacturer Pebble took a slightly more snarky approach, asking the local police if they too would be arrested for making clocks, while Box co-founder Aaron Levie upped the competition for Ahmed\u2019s future employment by saying he\u2019s an \u201centerprise software guy at heart\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Unsurprisingly Ahmed wants to transfer schools, but fortunately it seems his passion for innovation and invention hasn\u2019t been deterred by this incident.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t let people change who you are, even if you get consequences for it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s also posted about Ahmed\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving the skills and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe future belongs to people like Ahmed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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