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La Vida Robot: HS illegal immigrants best MIT (2005)

by ipython on 3/17/25, 12:24 AM with 2 comments

  • by ipython on 3/17/25, 12:32 AM

    True story dramatized in the movie “Spare Parts” (2015). Four students, three who were illegal immigrants, managed to beat MIT in the annual underwater robotics competition in 2004.

    One self-deported back to Mexico, expecting he could find a way to come back legally and reunite with his wife and daughter. After intervention by a US senator, he returned and served honorably in the US Army in Afghanistan.

    Follow up: https://www.azcentral.com/story/life/az-narratives/2014/07/1...

  • by ipython on 3/17/25, 12:32 AM