Obama on Twitter: "Cool clock, Ahmed"

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3. That is great! And it is great that people all over the world are responding to

this.

#IStandWithAhmed: Scientists and the public surge to support boy arrested for homemade clock

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/09/16/istandwithahmed-scientists-and-the-public-surge-to-support-boy-arrested-for-homemade-clock/?tid=sm_tw

The ordeal reminds many of what a young woman named Kiera Wilmot endured in 2013: Wilmot, also a budding scientist, was accused of lighting a chemical fire when one of her experiments went awry. By the time criminal charges were dropped, she had already been expelled from her school.

But in a silver lining, Wilmot was offered a trip to space camp by a NASA veteran.

Many are hoping that Mohamed can have a similar outcome, especially since he's made a heartbreaking vow never to bring an experiment to school again.


Already, Mohamed has NASA scientists offering up visits to their labs:


Anil Dash, the founder of Makerbase, is collecting ideas for how to help Mohamed -- and other kids like him -- in a Google survey.

Here is the link to the Google survey.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ws7e8WyQvrsLfhSFvdGot3n9NWKfY3XLPBgbHaZDy3k/viewform?c=0&w=1