La Vida Robot
Here is a Wired.com article about a group of high school kids from Phoenix, the children of migrant workers, who beat a bunch of college kids, including a team from MIT, in an underwater robot engineering competition. Because they are undocumented, they are ineligible for financial aid, or even "in-state tuition" rates at the Arizona public universities, so the contest winners are currently unable to enroll in college themselves.
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