A Long Beach student was arrested on suspicion of participating in a nationwide social media challenge that encourages students to jam lead or metal into the ports of their Chromebook laptop computers.
The “Chromebook challenge” is a viral TikTok trend where students short circuit their school-issued Chromebook computers, causing sparks, smoke and, in some cases, a fire.
Videos on TikTok show students jamming paperclips, pencils or the lead from mechanical pencils into USB ports…