Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream |
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| Authors: | Davis, Joshua & Biography |
| Topics: | Teen Topics, Contest, School Life |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers, Biography |
| BISAC/Subject: | BIO002000 |
| ISBN: | 9781443436052, Related ISBNs: 1443436054, 9781443436038, 9781443436052 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 240, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
The true story of four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix and how they took on the best from MIT in the National Underwater Robotics Championship
The story that inspired the major motion picture produced by George Lopez, directed by Sean McNamara, and starring Marissa Tomei, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steven Michael Quezada, and George Lopez, La Vida Robot is an underdog story about four undocumented Mexican-American teenagers from Phoenix who form a robotics team. With $800, used car parts, and a dream, they build an underwater robot that wins the national robotics competition, taking down reigning champion MIT.
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