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President Barack Obama has made good on the White House invite he gave to Ahmed Mohamed.
Mohamed is the Texas teenager who was handcuffed and arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school last month.
Monday night, Mohamed attended the president-hosted "Astronomy Night," WRC reported.
Obama and Mohamed met briefly as Obama left the event, but he was not mentioned by name during the president's remarks that encouraged kids to follow their curiosity.
"We have to watch for and cultivate and encourage those glimmers of curiosity and possibility, not suppress them, not squelch them," Obama said.
Obama had reached out on Twitter after Mohamed was arrested in September for bringing a clock to school that some had said could be mistaken for a bomb.
He was not charged, but was suspended from school.
Mohamed has withdrawn from his high school and is looking at options for a new school, WRC reported.
He hopes to eventually go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying to become an engineer, The Associated Press reported.
Along with the White House visit, he has visited Google and Facebook since his case went viral. He also met with the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, The AP reported.
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