WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Among the students and celebrities attending Astronomy Night at the White House was Ahmed Mohamed, a Texas teen who made headlines for taking a homemade clock to school in September and getting handcuffed for it.
Mohamed, 14, whose efforts briefly brought him notoriety as a symbol of youthful scientific curiosity in a time of ethnic and racial suspicion, did not bring the clock that got him arrested and suspended from his Irving, Texas, school. He was, though, able to speak briefly with President Barack Obama.