Left: Mohamed's Clock | Right: Mohamed Under Arrest Once there, Ahmed was then allowed to contact his parents, a privilege of which he was previously denied. Mohamed was later pulled from his sixth period class and taken to the principal's office where he was interrogated by several officers before being handcuffed and taken to a juvenile detention center. The teacher then confiscated the clock under the impression it looked like a bomb. Instead of impressing his teachers, Ahmed's engineering teacher suggested that he not "show any other teachers," but when the clock beeped during an English class, the teacher demanded to inspect the device. Happy with his design, Ahmed installed it in a pencil box and brought it to school the next day. On September 13th, 2015, Ahmed had constructed a DIY electronic clock based on a design he found on the internet. Ahmed had hoped to impress his new high school teachers with his knowledge of circuitry and electronics. "My hobby is to invent stuff," said Ahmed Mohamed to the Dallas Morning News. Ninth grader Ahmed Mohamed is a self-taught electronics enthusiast who was a member of the robotics club in his previous middle school. The arrest gathered much attention on social media, ranking high on trending lists and receiving many reactions from notable individuals including US President Barack Obama. Police and school administrators described the device as a "hoax bomb," but later declined filing charges against the student after determining that the device was not designed for any other purpose outside of being a clock. On September 14th, 2015, a 14 year-old boy named Ahmed Mohamed was arrested in Irving, Texas, after bringing a home-made electronic clock to school. Muslim, islam, islamaphobia, police, texas, irving, irving independent, high school, clock, nasa, engineering, teen, electronics
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