Tech Companies Stand With Ahmed Mohamed
Tech companies took to social media to show support for and offer jobs to Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texan who was arrested at his high school after bringing in what his teacher thought was a bomb but actually was an…
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electronic clock he made as part of an engineering project. Twitter tweeted support for Ahmed and offered him an internship. Mark Zuckerberg said he would love to meet Ahmed and give him a tour of Facebook. Foursquare tweeted support for Ahmed, as did several other tech companies including Google, which invited him to its online global science competition this weekend. President Barack Obama tweeted “Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?” The president’s top science adviser, John Holdren, personally invited the teen to the White House Astronomy Night Oct. 19, U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil wrote in a White House email.