Carl Hayden Community High School / Homepage Women's History Month Website Questions? A story first reported on "Horizonte" that year. "What will you say," he asks, "to an American kid who does not get into a state university and whose family cannot afford a private college because that seat and that subsidy have been given to someone who is in the country illegally?". Vazquez met Chelsea Clinton before a screening at a Clinton Global Initiative event in Colorado. I think it opened the door for all the students after them, as well. As have their teachers, Faridodin Lajvardi and Allan Cameron. . "Spare Parts", a movie based on the true story of the Carl Hayden High School Falcon Robotics Team, follows the journey of four students who are eager to compete in a national robotics competition. Swean nodded. I'm in the payoff stage now.". And also Monday, it will be broadcast by Mun2. >> When we arrived at the competition, I was pretty nervous. As I understand it, there's going to be, for lack of a better description, a commercial version of this. They did the whole thing in one night, got high on the pungent fumes, and dubbed their new creation Stinky. He launched into an in-depth explanation of the technology, offering details as if he were letting them in on a little secret. Carl Hayden Robotics Team Documentary July 17, 2014 More from this show Underwater Dreams is a new documentary that follows four undocumented students who entered an underwater robotics competition in 2004 and beat MIT and other colleges. Swean raised a bushy, graying eyebrow. Cristian Arcega: It was very inspirational especially getting to see and hear all the different stories, because the documentary doesn't just cover us. Three are involved in underwater robotics, with one headed to a project in Antarctica. The Carl Hayden teammates tried to hide their nervousness, but they were intimidated. They began by sending Luis to Home Depot to buy PVC pipe. The teachers had entered the club in the expert-level Explorer class instead of the beginner Ranger class. Jos Crdenas: And we're showing some of them on the screen as we're talking. He was one of three students singled out at his college graduation, receiving applause from the crowd in the stadium and that year's commencement speaker, President Barack Obama. The class photos beside the principal's office tell the story of the past four decades. He wasn't used to approaching women, let alone well-dressed white women. Thanks Structural Concepts for Video: No. Drooping, baggy jeans and XXXL hoodies are the norm. (End of tape) Do you want to be deported as a landscaper, a garbage collector or an engineer? He passed an elderly lady examining eggplanthe was too embarrassed to ask her. How Americas sketchy less-lethal weapons industry exports its insidious brand of violence around the world. mabel and ingrid's class. He was proud of his robot, but he could see that it looked like a Geo Metro compared with the Lexuses and BMWs around the pool. Luis also graduated and is filing papers in a Phoenix Social Security Services office. >> Discover, like, alien life. It's been an inspiring story and I wish you all the best. But Lorenzo didn't have much else to do after school. >> Knowing you can't do something just because you're lacking a piece of paper is kind of devastating. >> We're telling it to go forward, the robot's going sideways and I'm thinking - When Oscar gets home from work that night, he watches the gypsum dust swirl down the sink drain when he washes his hands. There's the excitement. All day long, he talked to military contractors, industrial engineers, and environmental consultants. Oscar said triumphantly when they hung up. Arcega tells the judges that people only use slides if they don't know what to say and they know what to say. And they think of Carl Hayden, they also think of kids who are immigrants to this country. As Thomas Pynchons novel turns 50, its world feels unnervingly present. They inspired those behind them to see that possibilities could exist. They had to fit their long, quarter-inch-wide sampling tube into a half-inch pipe and then fill the balloon for exactly 20 seconds to get 500 milliliters. The kids doubled down and worked harder. This is one that's at the top of the list to see where we are heading! He explained that he was building a robot for an underwater contest, and it was leaking. Together, these four teenagers became the underwater robotics team of Carl Hayden Community High School. The course is so difficult, nobody's robot can complete every task successfully. ", "You hear that?" He made sure that everyone was in the room and focused when he phoned Frank Szwankowski, who sold industrial and scientific thermometers at Omega Engineering in Stamford, Connecticut. Was there a letdown maybe not immediately, but over time? Aranda said that happened sometime during high school, though he doesn't exactly remember when. "PowerPoint is a distraction," Cristian replied. I feel that every time I think about it.". "You can't all be engineers. Lorenzo had never seen so many white people in one place. Cristian Arcega: There definitely was. Y rt nhiu cu v d dch cha "MY TRNG" - ting vit-ting anh bn dch v ng c cho bn dch ting vit tm kim. The schools robotics club is thriving today, inspiring students to learn about science and technology. ", Cameron is retired from teaching. The sharp question from the van's driver, Allan Cameron, snapped Lorenzo out of his reverie. Jos Crdenas: That's an excellent point. That's why he decided to come to Cameron's meeting. Jos Crdenas: We're talking about people who came after you. He introduced his teammates: Cristian, the brainiac; Lorenzo, the vato loco who had a surprising aptitude for mechanics; and 18-year-old Luis Aranda, the fourth member of the crew. Jos Crdenas: So, a lot of memories for you guys. Cristian was beaming. roberto melendez abdiel mireles diego villeneuve christian welch alicia cabrera-mino jaya narain woo jeong byun kirstyn hein thomas moriarty david wise christopher williams . Bill Murray and more 'Saturday Night Live' stars of the '70s: Where are they now? He earned a certification in use of the Solidworks design program. They figured their students would lose anyway, and there was more honor in losing to the college kids in the Explorer division than to the high schoolers in Ranger. Even though she's clearly active in the entertainment biz, she's nowhere close to being the teen idol she once was. Carl Hayden High School's victory in a robotic competition over colleges has inspired two films. Instead, he said he is mostly trying to get by., Lorenzo Santillan is working as a line cook and in catering. The team beat out prestigious colleges, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. Jos Crdenas: Tell us about that. LORENZO That and the fact that students socialized based on Mexican geography: In the cafeteria, there were. But after we graduated high school, there was a lot of anti-immigration legislation in the state and I lost my scholarship from Prop 300 and I didn't really have anywhere or any set goals because my whole life I had already always been aiming for that goal. Ten days later, Vazquez had his visa. Now that they were focused on the mission, both pilots relaxed and made almost imperceptibly small movements with their joysticks. Most of the other teams wouldn't even consider putting their power supplies in the water. This button displays the currently selected search type. 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In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Cristian Arcega and Lorenzo Santilln, two of four former Phoenix, Arizona high school students whose robotic team beat MIT and other prestigious universities in a 2004 national NASA competition. Here's FRC 1726's pending robot design for the National Underwater Robotics Challenge (June 6-8, 2008). They settled down and knocked off the first two tasks. This ragtag group from Carl Hayden Community High School in West Phoenix constructed the robot out of cheap plastic tubing and garbage. "This is good, this is good," Oscar kept repeating, buying himself a few seconds to come up with a positive spin. The unlikely national contest winners are also the subject of an upcoming Hollywood film starring George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Marissa Tomei. Those "just a paycheck" jobs, as he calls them, will help fund his designs for consumer electronics. How they went toe-to-toe with the nation's most educated and experienced engineering college students. "I'm not too concerned with them calling me illegal or not," he said. Other donations brought the MIT team's total budget to $11,000. A set of high-powered fans blew across the surface of the pool, obscuring the view below and forcing teams to navigate by instrumentation alone. >> My idea was a tampon. All rights reserved. By putting the battery system in the same housing as the onboard electronics, Team Falcon gave its ROV increased mobility and ballast. So we'll go from . In the lobby outside the review room, Cameron and Ledge waited anxiously for the kids. You might remember the story of four young Latino men from Carl Hayden High School who built an underwater robot named "Stinky" in 2004. Even though Lorenzo had never heard of MIT, the team from Cambridge scared him, too. Dch trong bi cnh "MY TRNG" trong ting vit-ting anh. The point is to be successful at what you're doing.". Then Merrill leaned into the microphone and said that the ROV named Stinky had captured the design award. Jos Crdenas: With us tonight to talk about the Carl Hayden robotics documentary "Underwater Dreams" are one of the coaches Fredi Lajvardi, and two of the team members Cristian Arcega and Lorenzo Santillan. Later, the teachers told me who MIT was and all the other colleges that we had just beat. The guys dropped Lorenzo off in front. Jos Crdenas: So as I understand it, Cristian and you Lorenzo were sophomores at the time. A documentary about the team and its legacy at the school, "Underwater Dreams," is running at a Phoenix theater and a truncated version airs on MSNBC and Telemundo on Sunday. The team, not wanting to celebrate too loudly at the awards ceremony and insult the college teams, scurries to a nearby beach to whoop and holler. But Aranda was different from the rest of the group in another way. What was that like? Now their story is playing out on the big screen. They had won two of the top awards. The Carl Hayden Robotics Team (the subject of the movie) has several T100 thrusters, that they plan to use on the new Autonomous Underwater Vehicle that they are building for the . When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. After Hernandez is introduced, the film starts to focus on the legendary Carl Hayden underwater robotics team, which at this point has been featured in both a documentary and a feature film because it's such a great David vs. Goliath story. The 17-year-old kid from the desert wanted advice on how to build a military-grade underwater ROV. The guys trotted up to the stage, forcing smiles. One promising solution, according to Cameron and other advocates for immigrant kids, is the Dream Act, federal legislation that would give in-state tuition and temporary resident status to undocumented students who graduate from a US high school after being enrolled in the States for five years or more. Classmates Oscar Vazquez, Luis Aranda, Cristian Arcega and Santillan did not have much money, experience or faith in themselves, but they made a robot nicknamed Stinky out of duct tape and materials from Home Depot. They started in 2007 by forming a girls-only team. This weekend, which will be on Sunday afternoon, you would have to check your local schedule for that, but it's going to be simultaneously broadcast in Spanish and English on Telemundo and MSNBC. He wandered past the organic produce section, trying to build up his courage. For all, it was their first time in New York. Cameron was the computer science teacher sponsoring Carl Hayden's robotics program. The Lie Detector Was Never Very Good at Telling the Truth. Cristian Arcega: That's right. So, it didn't make a difference if I beat a college or university, I didn't know who they were. Here's what these former child actors are up to today. The front lawn is nothing but brown scrub and patches of dirt. A few weeks earlier, some college oceanic engineering students had called and said they were entering the national underwater ROV championships. In 1965, the students were nearly all white, wearing blazers, ties, and long skirts. "We used a helium neon laser, captured its phase shift with a photo sensor, and manually corrected by 30 percent to account for the index of refraction," Cristian answered rapidly, keyed up on adrenaline. The article, headlined "La Vida Robot," resulted in readers offering to donate money to help the students with college. Jos Crdenas: Cristian, what about afterwards? A shortened version will air at 10 a.m. Sunday on cable station MSNBC and at noon in Spanish on Telemundo, KTAZ-TV, Channel 39. What was it like going through the movie making process? The Wired magazine article, and subsequent stories printed in The Arizona Republic and elsewhere, said all four students on the winning robotics team were undocumented. Turns his back on a gang to join the robotics team, feeling a sense of true belonging for the first time in his life Learns the importance of creativity by watching his cousins repair cars in the drivewaytheir impromptu auto shop Nicknames the team's underwater ROV "Stinky" Luis The side effect was that no one had a good sense of how the other teams were doing. "Here you have kids that can compete and that clearly are innovative, that love to build and to fuel the country forward We need these kids, and they face these impediments.". They re-adjusted their grip on the joysticks and leaned into the monitors. >> We were all having problems. Aranda, 28, also went to culinary school. These Girls Have Built Robots Since They Were Toddlers. Fredi grew up as an Iranian immigrant and was often made fun of and even beaten up in high school, particularly during the Iranian read analysis of Fredi Lajvardi Allan Cameron Another teacher at Carl Hayden who helps Fredi with the robotics club. A senior, he'd been in ROTC since ninth grade and was planning on a career in the military. While these numbers may have improved since DACA was introduced in 2012, undocumented students still face financial and logistical hurdles to accessing higher education (earlier this month, a federal appeals court blocked an executive order by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer that denied drivers licenses to DACA recipients). 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One broken wire would destroy the whole system, forcing them to withdraw from the contest. Jos Crdenas: Kind of like LeBron James going back to Cleveland. in the 2004 MATE ROV competition. Lajvardi, who was part of the MIT visit, said there was an uncomfortable feeling in the room when the teams compared jobs over the past decade. His brains and diminutive stature (5'4", 135 pounds) kept him apart at Carl Hayden. The Republic told his story. We've actually talked about this wonderful story a number of times over the last 10 years. Although it might not translate into a higher salary or prestigious job, he credits those four with the legacy. And though they've lived in Arizona for an average of 11 years, they would still have to pay out-of-state tuition, which can be as much as three times the in-state cost. WIRED may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. It's a hot Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix, and he's hanging sheetrock. After the engineering interview, they decided that they had probably placed somewhere in the middle of the pack, maybe fourth or fifth overall. They are on the robotics team at Phoenix's Carl Hayden High School, which serves a mostly Latino, low-income student body. The winter rain makes a mess of West Phoenix. The bot wasn't small enough to slip past the gap in the frame, making their pump system useless. Sometimes out of necessity and sometimes as passion projects, singers, actors, musicians, athletes, artists, and politicians . All four of the team members could have gained citizenship through the Dream Act, which died in Congress in 2010. Although in this competition, the robots would be autonomous, or run themselves. >> They were a rag tag robotics team. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. The government denied his request twice. When Luis lowered Stinky into the water for their run, Lorenzo prayed to the Virgin Mary. The robot competition (sponsored in part by the Office of Naval Research and NASA) required students to build a bot that could survey a sunken mock-up of a submarinenot easy stuff. Their nerves had calmed. But when he called to schedule a recruitment meeting at the end of his junior year, the officer in charge told him he was ineligible for military service. Cristian calculated the volume of air inside the pipes and realized immediately that they'd need ballast. It took a lot of opportunities away. He also said numbers sometimes appeared out of order to him. The drivers, Cristian and Oscar, could make the bot hover, spin in place, and angle up or down. The MIT students shifted in their seats and stretched their legs. >> It wasn't about building a robot. They noticed that the controls worked only intermittently. Like a tampon. And as I understand, there's going to be a shortened version that's going to be shown on television. Both times, it beat MIT. "The best thing that they can have credit for," he said, sitting at his desk, students in front of him programming an autonomous robot, "is opening the doors for all the kids that followed after them. . He started his own catering business, Dragonfly Catering, since his legal status prevented him from being an employee, but allowed him to create his own company. Jos Crdenas: Why so long? They were the most likely third-place finishers. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. And then I want to talk about the actual events and what it was like to compete against MIT and some of the other major universities in the country. When they reached the submarine, they saw the drum and tried to steady the robot. marc, richie nathan, johan michelle, angel david, dante. Carl Hayden High School, he said, was that special team. Team Leader Kristen Shriner Kristen is a senior at Carl Hayden High school. It turns dirt yards into mud and forms reefs of garbage in the streets. Underwater Dreams is a new documentary that follows four undocumented students who entered an underwater robotics competition in 2004 and beat MIT and other colleges. carl hayden robotics team where are they now. Lajvardi still teaches at Carl Hayden. "I'm not hustling for a new job or promotion. But dropped out when the lessons moved from the kitchen to the classroom. Now he was ready to build something of his own. The whir of Stinky's propellers brought him back to the task at hand, extracting a water sample from a submerged container. When she was . Vazquez did two tours of duty in Afghanistan and now works for a railroad company. he asked. It was devastating, especially since I had turned down offers from other colleges outside Arizona., Arcega would have liked to obtain a Masters Degree, and then work in research and development. Carl Hayden Community High School was a poor school, with a lot of poor kids. There wasn't an excellent program for the contest these boys wanted to enter. And they would either have to fix the leak or find something absorbent to keep moisture away from the onboard circuitry. We've spent some time brainstorming and reflecting on last year's competition, and came to several conclusions that greatly aided in the construction of this year's robot. After we had already started to do the documentary, they wanted to now do the feature film. A feature film based on the story, starring comedian George Lopez, is scheduled for release in January. This character is played by Marisa Tomei, who pushes George Lopez to work with the kids and make sure he stays true to his word, and doesn't just abandon the kids. Oscar helped persuade a handful of local businesses to donate money to the team. A sign reads: Carl Hayden Community High School: The Pride's Inside. He and Ledge had to gather a group of students who, in four months, could raise money, build a robot, and learn how to pilot it. The teachers jokingly agree to take the students to Hooters if they win the competition. On West Roosevelt Avenue, security guards, two squad cars, and a handful of cops watch teenagers file into the local high school. The other kids had simply asked him what they wanted and hung up. But life after high school has not been easy for the members of the 2004 Carl Hayden robotics team, mainly because of their lack of legal status. One student then asks the Carl Hayden team what they are up to. A feature film based on the story, starring comedian George Lopez, is scheduled for release in January, Filming on "Spare Parts," wrapped up in New Mexico late last year, He was one of three students singled out at his college graduation, receiving applause from the crowd in the stadium and that year's commencement speaker, President Barack Obama, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. They spun the robot around, piloted it back to Luis at the edge of the pool, and looked at the judges, who stood in the control tent behind them. While other teams machined and welded metal frames, the guys broke out the rubber glue and began assembling the PVC pipe. The MIT alums talk about their current jobs. After those rights lapsed, Mazzio was able to secure a deal to make the documentary. They were nervous and overcompensated for each other's joystick movements, causing Stinky to veer off course. I was really surprised by how tough they were about it. It's a scene that Mazzio says has made audiences in test screenings uncomfortable. Maybe, he thought, engineering could offer him a future. I didnt have the money to stay in school, he said. His brains and diminutive stature (5'4", 135 pounds) kept him apart at Carl Hayden. Screen Printing and Embroidery for clothing and accessories, as well as Technical Screenprinting, Overlays, and Labels for industrial and commercial applications Maybe she thought he was trying to sell magazines or candy bars, but he steeled himself. Cristian had hacked together off-the-shelf joysticks, a motherboard, motors, and an array of onboard finger-sized video cameras, which now sent flickering images to black-and-white monitors on a folding picnic table.

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