Olivia Hallisey, the winner of this year’s Google fair, created a very unique and low-cost method of detecting Ebola.
"Curious young scientists, inventors, and builders like him should be encouraged and empowered." "We’re especially glad that Ahmed Mohamed - the 14-year-old clock maker from Texas - took us up on our invite to attend this year’s event” said DiChristina”. He even got a chance to hang out with the co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin (Everyone reading this will be jealous, I know I am!)Īccording to some blog posts, specifically the one written by Mariette DiChristina, editor in chief at Scientific American, Ahmed’s attendance made a significant difference in the event because his presence promoted the desire for the young people to get support. One of the students in California also told Mohamed about his repute in other schools by saying “We learned about you in school”. He was given a very warm welcome by Google and he was allowed to have a tour of booths and he also took selfies with the finalists, the pictures have now gone viral because of the fame that Ahmed has gotten in the last few days according to a report from USA Today. We need to ask Governor Cuomo and the Legislature to step up or tell us why not.Ahmed Mohamed, the school boy who was wrongly arrested under the suspicion of creating a time bomb and bringing it to school has been on a string of compensation glory with a visit to the desirable annual Google Science Fair (Sometimes being a nerd does pay off).Ī Tweet by Aimee Rawlins about Ahmed This kid's going to some really great placesĪhmed was invited by Google to the event last week. For us in New York, our challenge now is to say get the NY Dream Act passed. “And it must be said that it would never have happened without the courage and determination by the Dreamers themselves who put their lives on the line by coming out in public, demonstrating, marching, sitting-in, hunger-striking, etc. “This is an incredible step forward by the President, but only the first step,” said Vazquez. Their point that the White House order is not legislation and is in force only as long as Barack Obama is President, and is not a road to citizenship or even amnesty, was underscored by Estel Vazquez, 1199SEIU Executive Vice President who was honored at a banquet earlier this month by the NY Immigration Coalition for her lifetime devotion to the cause of comprehensive immigration reform. And of course we will continue to work to make Congress to pass a federal Dream Act and make this the law.” Certainly President Obama’s statement will help bring pressure to make that happen. Garcia agreed/ “Now, in the coming months, we’ve got to convince the NY legislature and Governor Cuomo to pass the NY Dream Act. With more and more people, we can hopefully pass a real Dream Act that gives us permanent resident status.” “With President Obama’s decision, I expect that now a lot of immigrants without papers who were afraid to come out will now do so. “But in fact, with our determination and our productively, we actually a a great supply of resources to this country. “The argument by some people against us immigrants is that we are a drain on resources,” said Ahmed. You can’t imagine what this means to us and our families.īoth Ahmed and Garcia are Dream Fellows at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) and have been nearly full-time campaigners for the Dream Act. “I’ve been working on the Dream Act for three years and the two days before the White House statement, I’d been in Albany and City Hall talking with the governor, the mayor, members of the City Council. “A reporter friend called me with the news of Obama’s announcement. Yohan Garcia, a Hunter College student from Mexico who now lives in Brooklyn, had a similar response. My youngest sister was born here and this would have broken up my family.” We had been talking about my having to leave the country which meant that I couldn’t apply for re-entry for ten years. I’m applying for jobs for after graduation and now I’ll actually have a work permit, said Ahmed, a NY City College senior in chemical engineering who lives in Staten Island. “It’s incredible-and perfect timing for me. Then I saw a few more messages and called the NYIC and found out it was true. I figured it was fake news so I deleted it. “I first read about the Obama statement on Facebook. “It’s funny,” said Mubashar Ahmed, a 23-year-old from Pakistan. The first response from many “Dreamers”-those immigrant students without documents who have been campaigning for the Dream Act to stop deportations and give them work permits-to President Obama’s order last week to do just that, was disbelief. Dreamers and 1199ers “Ecstatic” With President Obama’s Announcement of Work Permits and No More Deportations June 21, 2012
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