IRVING -- "I want to make sure this never happens to another child globally ever again."
Ahmed Mohamed is still suspended from class, three days after being handcuffed for bringing a homemade clock to class. Teachers thought it looked like a bomb.
"Before I was really scared that no one was really going to care about me cause I'm Muslim and now everyone wants to interview me because of what happened," Mohamed said in an interview with News 8.
Twitter is inviting the 14-year-old to intern. Google is asking him to attend its science fair. Mark Zuckerberg wants him to visit Facebook. Even President Obama tweeted, "Cool clock Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?"
"The American people are so eager to see what this clock is, so I'll show it to them and I'll see what their opinion is about it," Mohamed said.
School leaders in Irving say they wish the more than a million people commenting on this clock controversy on Twitter had all the facts straight before jumping to conclusions. They say if the same thing were to happen all over again, they'd handle it the exact same way.
"We're never going to take chances with student safety," Lesley Weaver with Irving ISD said.
Weaver says the district stands behind its teacher, who felt uneasy when she heard beeping and spotted Mohamed's invention.
The teen's pet project in a briefcase had exposed wires and a timer on it.
"It is a little bit disappointing that there are so many comments on social media from people who I don't think have the complete story," Weaver said. "We have an obligation to protect all 2,800 students here at MacArthur."
And now the one student who shook their sense of safety by tinkering with science says he's transferring schools and has no plans on stopping his creations.
"Not my last invention and it wasn't my first," he said.
