6. PROFIT!!!
This kind of behaviour should not be rewarded, condoned or supported in any way. Sure, he's just a kid and kids exaggerate to get attention, but he let it go way too far and he has got to have been really dumb not to have expected the reaction he got, which I why I suspect it was all planned to go the way it did.
He made a commercial clock look like a bomb to provoke an anti-terrorist reaction and profit from the publicity. If you think "well done, you deserve to be lauded and get all kinds of stuff, because you forced us to do something out of the desire to protect others and then played on our feelings of guilt", sorry, but I don't.
Kid should be exposed as the fraud / faker he is and all the companies / colleges, etc should take the stuff back. Then he should be charged with fraud and police provocation even if he doesn't actually serve a sentence since he's a minor. Since he took it as far as he did, the consequences now have to be as public and strong as all the rest of it.
I'm not a young maker any more, but I used to be, and most really awesome and innovative projects done by youngsters get about the right amount of support, but some definitely get too little. It's really aggravating that this guy should get the praise he has when he's done nothing creative or innovative in any way, except to deceive a bunch of people.
He certainly did not work his ass off to build this "clock", unlike many youngsters trying to get into the better technical colleges / universities.