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Re: Can someone in the Irving TX area "draft" this young man?

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Originally Posted by Monochron View Post
Are you sure? And if so, who cares? I have been under the impression that he followed some instructions (alla, Instructables) and used kit type parts to build it. Whichever of those is true, awesome! I wish I had had the initiative to do that at age 14.

I'll address many of the responses I've seen here.
1. He said so himself during many recorded interviews that it was his invention. (I'm surprised our FIRST community Memebers hasn't been able to identify that he hadn't made the clock from the photo)
2. He literally opened up a clock case and spilled its innards out onto box. That's fine also I guess sure we'll applaud that as curiosity or whatever
3. If that is the case then should we encourage students the way we are Ahmed? Does every 10-14 year old (who I've seen many do remarkable things) get huge scholarship funds, internship opportunities, and a White House visit?
4. I certainly hope you didn't have the initiative to plaguerize at his age because that's exactly what he's done.