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

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...