Ahmed Mohamed, a Texas teenager who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb, addressed his ordeal on Good Morning America on Thursday.
The 14-year-old told GMA that it felt "really weird" getting arrested and that the reason he brought the digital clock to school was to impress his teachers.
Mohamed was told he was unable to call his parents while he was being interrogated by police. "I repeatedly told them, 'It's a clock,'" he said.
In the wake of Ahmed's release, he was invited to visit Facebook, attend Google's science fair, intern at Twitter and even received a personal invite to the White House from President Obama.
Mohamed is accepting Obama's invitation, although he is most excited about an invite from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) -- his dream school.
Although Mohamed received a three-day suspension from his high school, he is viewing the end result of his ordeal in a positive light.
“I wanted to have my teacher see that I want to be an engineer when I grow up, so I guess now I get millions of people watching me be an engineer,” he said.