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Four undocumented Mexican-American students, two great professors, one robot-building competition... and a significant motion picture. In 2004, four Latino teens arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the College or university of California, Santa Barbara. These were given birth to in Mexico but lifted in Phoenix, Arizona, where they went to an underfunded general public high school. No-one had ever advised to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much - but two motivating science teachers got convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who got never even seen the sea that they have to try to build an underwater automatic robot. And build a robot they performed. Their automatic robot wasn't quite, especially in comparison to those of your competition. They were going up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the united states, including a team from MIT supported by a $10,000 offer from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teens had scraped collectively significantly less than $1,000 and built their automatic robot out of scavenged parts. This is never a level competition - yet, against all probabilities... they gained! But this is just the beginning for these four, whose story - which became an integral enthusiasm to the DREAMers movements - will continue to add first-generation school graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in Afghanistan. Joshua Davis' Free Parts is a story about overcoming insurmountable probabilities and four young men who proved these were among the most patriotic and gifted Americans in this country - even while the country tried out to kick them out.
