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 high school. No one had ever suggested that they might amount to much. But two inspiring science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert that they should try to build an underwater robot. And build a robot they did.
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