salon:Like many reasonably rational, science and technology appreciating American humans, I was appa
salon:Like many reasonably rational, science and technology appreciating American humans, I was appalled to awaken Wednesday to the news that 14 year-old Irving, Texas student Ahmed Mohamed had been suspended, put in handcuffs and arrested — after bringing in a homemade clock to MacArthur High. And although skeptical curiosity is apparently not welcome in certain parts, I, like a lot of people, have a lot of questions here.Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News Wednesday that he’d loved the robotics club in middle school, and was looking for something similar this year in high school. So he quickly put together his project Sunday evening, “a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display, all strapped inside a case with a tiger hologram on the front.” But his engineering teacher told him, “That’s really nice. I would advise you not to show any other teachers.” And when his English teacher saw it, she told him, “It looks like a bomb.” He replied, “It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.”Arduino cofounder and NYU professor Tom Igoe says Ahmed is “not an outlier at all” in his passion -- source link