The Texas high schooler/clockmaker now has a bag of Microsoft swag including a Surface Pro 3, to add to his inventory.
One question: Who is Ahmed Mohamed’s PR person?
The Irving, Texas high school student who freaked out his teachers and was arrested by local police for bringing a home-made clock to school, now has a bunch of new tech swag, including a Surface Pro 3from his new best friends at Microsoft MSFT -1.74% .
Mohamed’s arrest sparked an outcry among those who felt the arrest was overkill and he was targeted because he is Muslim. One contention was that since the bomb squad was never called, there was never any real fear that the clock, a bundle of circuit boards and wiring, was a bomb, as teachers and others first suggested.
Outcry on social media, including the massive#IStandWithAhmed Twitterfortune-stock symbol=”TWTR”] thread, ensued.https://twitter.com/IStandWithAhmed
Since the kerfuffle, Mohamed has appeared onMSNBC, gotten invitations to MIT, reportedly his “dream school” and Harvard; received a T-shirt from NASA; a White House invitation from President Barack Obama; and praise from Facebook FB 0.37% CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The general thinking was that Mohamed is the sort of can-do techie this country needs.
And, as to be expected, there has also been backlashfrom former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and others who said that the reaction to Mohamed’s arrest was as overblown as the arrest itself.
And, some of the comments on the Microsoft blog postannouncing the goody bag blasted the company for using the kid to promote its products.
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