The Resource Spare parts : four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream, Joshua Davis
Spare parts : four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream, Joshua Davis
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The item Spare parts : four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream, Joshua Davis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
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- Relates how four undocumented Mexican immigrants in Arizona put together an underwater robot from scavenged parts and went on to win the National Underwater Robotics Competition at UC Santa Barbara
- Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest ... and a major motion picture. 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 robot. And build a robot they did. Their robot wasn't pretty, especially compared to those of the competition. They were going up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country, including a team from MIT backed by a $10,000 grant from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers had scraped together less than $1,000 and built their robot out of scavenged parts. 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 Afghanistan. Joshua Davis's Spare Parts is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and four young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country--even as the country tried to kick them out
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition, 2014.
- Extent
- xii, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Author's note
- Introduction
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Acknowledgments
- Isbn
- 9780374183370
- Label
- Spare parts : four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream
- Title
- Spare parts
- Title remainder
- four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream
- Statement of responsibility
- Joshua Davis
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Relates how four undocumented Mexican immigrants in Arizona put together an underwater robot from scavenged parts and went on to win the National Underwater Robotics Competition at UC Santa Barbara
- Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest ... and a major motion picture. 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 robot. And build a robot they did. Their robot wasn't pretty, especially compared to those of the competition. They were going up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country, including a team from MIT backed by a $10,000 grant from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers had scraped together less than $1,000 and built their robot out of scavenged parts. 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 Afghanistan. Joshua Davis's Spare Parts is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and four young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country--even as the country tried to kick them out
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1974-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Davis, Joshua
- Dewey number
- 629.8/9207973
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- TJ211.26
- LC item number
- .D38 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Robotics
- Remote submersibles
- Mexican American boys
- Mexican Americans
- Phoenix (Ariz.)
- Mexican Americans
- Label
- Spare parts : four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream, Joshua Davis
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- volume
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Author's note -- Introduction -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- Acknowledgments
- Control code
- ocn879662295
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition, 2014.
- Extent
- xii, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780374183370
- Lccn
- 2014018569
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
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- Other physical details
- color illustrations
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- (Sirsi) o879662295
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- Spare parts : four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream, Joshua Davis
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- Contents
- Author's note -- Introduction -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- Acknowledgments
- Control code
- ocn879662295
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition, 2014.
- Extent
- xii, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780374183370
- Lccn
- 2014018569
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- unmediated
- Media MARC source
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