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Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
FSG Originals
December 2014
On Sale: December 2, 2014
240 pages
ISBN: 0374183376
EAN: 9780374183370
Kindle: B00IQOC2DU
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
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.
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