Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ten years ago, WIRED readers provided scholarships to four high school kids who beat MIT in a robotics competition. On the eve of a movie about them, here's how there lives have changed.
It is based on the Wired magazine article "La Vida Robot" (Robot Life) by Joshua Davis, about the true story of a group of students from a mainly Latino high school, who won first place over M.I.T. in the 2004 MATE ROV competition.
Three of the four winners were undocumented and risked deportation when they traveled to Santa Barbara to win MATE’s top prize. This month, their story gets the big-screen treatment in Spare Parts, a film based on Wired editor Joshua Davis’s 2005 reporting on the team.
The movie is based on a true story about the undocumented high school students from Arizona, who participate in underwater robotics competition and compete against top universities in the Nation.
The Real People Who Inspired The Film 'Spare Parts'. In 2004, a team of high school students defeated college teams, including MIT, in an underwater robotic competition.
In 2004, a team of high school students from Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix, Arizona, defeated college teams, including MIT, in an underwater robotic competition.
In 2004, a team of high school students from Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix, Arizona, defeated college teams, ...
This is a true life story about four Hispanic high school students who form a robotics club under the leadership of their school's newest teacher, Fredi. With no experience, $800, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT.
In 2004, a team of high school students from Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix, Arizona, defeated college teams, including MIT, in an underwater robotic competition.
Spare Parts, the George Lopez movie opening in theaters in January 2015, is an inspirational true story about four undocumented high schoolers in Arizona who took on fancier, richer college...