The 14-year-old arrested for bringing a clock to school gets invites to visit Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg
Sep 17, 2015, 00:02 IST
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The clock that prompted the school's call to the police consisted of a circuit board and a power supply wired to a digital display inside a metal pencil case, according to the Dallas Morning News who first reported the freshman's arrest.
The police decided not to press charges against the high school student who had been proud to show off his engineering achievement to his teachers.
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#IStandWithAhmed has gone viral since the teen's release from custody, and Obama even tweeted an invite to bring the clock to the White House.
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