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Joshua Davis’s Spare Parts–now a major motion picture–is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and the young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country–even as the country tried to kick them undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . .
In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much–but two inspiring science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an underwater build a robot they did. Their robot wasn’t pretty, especially compared to those of the competition. This was never a level competition–and yet, against all odds . . . they won!But this is just the beginning for these four, whose story–which became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement–will go on to include first-generation college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize New York Times Best Seller
Author: Joshua Davis
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 12/2/2014
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.5 lbs
Size: 8.1″ H x 5.4″ L x 0.7″ W
ISBN: 9780374534981
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