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

[neshera]

Sounds like FRC could be a good fit for this young man, and let him know that there are people out there who value kids like this.

From the Dallas Morning News: "Northwest Dallas County
Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?' "

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/commu...-to-school.ece

[carpedav000]

Team 3370- Aftershock, is based out of Irving.

[RoboChair]

I too think that this would be a good idea to try and find a local FTC or FRC team for him to participate on. Could anyone that knows Aftershock get in contact with them?

[logank013]

After reading the story, I understand why the school overreacted. Stereotypical bombs have a large countdown clock. I doubt most bombs actually have those on them. Any self educated person could look at the wiring and tell if it's actually a clock or not. I would have probably known that before I joined my team's electronics sub team. It's a sad story that he may be charged with a hoax bomb over some English teachers lack of knowledge on electronics. (Keep in mind I don't know what the clock looked like. I can't watch the video since I'm in a quiet place.) Hope some FIRST team can recruit him. He just sounds like a good old robotics geek (like the rest of us) that didn't think about the fact that his clock may look like the stereo typical bomb.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by logank013

After reading the story, I understand why the school overreacted.

100% guaranteed this "overreaction" doesn't occur if he is white and his name isn't Ahmed Mohammed...that's the real problem.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Cory

100% guaranteed this "overreaction" doesn't occur if he is white and his name isn't Ahmed Mohamed...that's the real problem.

...and it is mid-September...

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Cory

100% guaranteed this "overreaction" doesn't occur if he is white and his name isn't Ahmed Mohammed...that's the real problem.

Don't you know? Kids who wear NASA shirts to school are obviously up to no good and hate America...

[JB987]

Originally Posted by Cory

100% guaranteed this "overreaction" doesn't occur if he is white and his name isn't Ahmed Mohammed...that's the real problem.

+1

[Akash Rastogi]

In a positive update, the kid just got a personal invite to the White House by POTUS.



https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656

[FrankJ]

Boy, we have been bringing our "cannon" to all sorts of school events. Good thing it doesn't have a count down clock on it.

The teacher reportedly thinks it looks like a bomb and keeps it. Does that sound like a good plan?

[Foster]

Stereotypical bombs have a large countdown clock.

Yes they do. This one was a clock, so I think it was counting UP. That makes it harder to be a bomb.

Related, someone found on Amazon these $4 clock kits (with free shipping) and are sending them to the school.

Feel free to help start the STEM program there:

MacArthur High School
attn: Daniel Cummings
3700 N MacArthur Blvd,
Irving, TX 75062

Or send a clock kit to your local high school, maybe you can get one of your local kids a trip to DC to meet the President!

I'm happy for him that it's going to work out, sad that it happened in the first place.

[logank013]

Haha. Yeah, after seeing what some of you all responded to my post, there are some majors issues with the teacher who reported this.

[FrankJ]

Originally Posted by logank013

Haha. Yeah, after seeing what some of you all responded to my post, there are some majors issues with the teacher who reported this.

To be honest & only knowing the story over the internet, I am not sure the English teacher did anything wrong. Doesn't everybody carry around dual function bomb/alarm clocks? The administration and the police however way overreacted. At least the police had the common sense to admit it and drop it.

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Foster

Related, someone found on Amazon these $4 clock kits (with free shipping) and are sending them to the school.

Feel free to help start the STEM program there:

MacArthur High School
attn: Daniel Cummings
3700 N MacArthur Blvd,
Irving, TX 75062

That's hilarious, and awesome. Reminds me of the Nuts for Jericho campaign. I would love to see this take off in that way. If you really get the internet behind something and it takes off, you'd have enough sent over there to where every kid in the whole school district could build one!

[Foster]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

That's hilarious, and awesome. Reminds me of the Nuts for Jericho campaign. I would love to see this take off in that way. If you really get the internet behind something and it takes off, you'd have enough sent over there to where every kid in the whole school district could build one!

Yep, I sent 5 kits worth, lets hope they get to someone and not the trash.

Originally Posted by cbale2000

So, I'll still think basically anyone who looked at this for more than 30 seconds should have been able to recognize that this was not, in fact, a bomb. That said, I think, had it been me, I would have found a different way to house the electronics. The metal "briefcase" was... less than ideal.

Right it is a makeup case that you can get online or at Target. I have a pair of them. One has Arduino stuff in it (board, shields, cable, power brick, etc.) and the other has the stuff for a Raspberry Pi demo. They are small, sturdy and come in colors. (Blue is Arduino since the board is blue). They can bang around in the back of the car and not damage the electronics.

1/2 of the effort in any electronics project is trying to find a case, getting knobs mounted and labeled so it all looks nice. He took the time to put the school mascot on it. Evil Geniuses don't do that (ok,maybe a "shark with laser sticker", but never Left Shark)