The Salvation of Humanity
With the Ministry's attention focussed on dorks and geek behavior, it is absolutely crucial that as a couterbalance you read this awe-inspiring story about four high school kids from Phoenix - who also happen to be undocument Mexican immigrants - built an underwater robot that beat all comers in a college-level robotics competition. MIT can go suck gravel.
After reading the story, if it's in your idiom to do so please consider donating to their college fund. Since they and their parents entered the country illegally, they can't get state or federal financial aid and their families are next to broke besides, and I gotta say it would be a damn waste if a kid who taught himself enough about engineering to beat the cream of Cambridge ends up hanging sheetrock for the rest of his life.
Moreover, these four have demonstrated a stunning ability to understand and more importantly control robots. Do I need to remind our readers that control is the last defense humanity has against the coming robot revolution? They must be made able to man the barricades!
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It's the word at the bottom
It's the word at the bottom of the comment screen. Sometimes it's weirdly convergent with the story.
CODEWORD: PROVIDE (as in college funds)
J,
J,
They can get support to some extent from any school they apply to (how much depends on the institution's endowment policies and fin aid tradition). And of course private philanthropy, which it seems they're already working on. The military is of course also an option.
I wouldn't worry about how much monetary help they'll get for higher-ed. Besides, they will refine their already formidable skills on the battlefields of tomorrow.
And while they're at it, let
And while they're at it, let's get them started on ensuring these little darlings stay in a tightly-bound box:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/sciences/story/0,12243,1447846,0…
GL, if you read the article
GL, if you read the article carefully, the military is NOT an option. One guy had ROTC lined up, but as an undocumented person, he cannot join up.
Interesting. Secret word today was "THEM"
Maps, what's with the secret
Maps, what's with the secret word of the day?
It would be funnier if he got
It would be funnier if he got money to got back to Mexico, worked for the gov't and built an invincible robot army army. But would his name for them reference American culture: the Borg, the Cylons, the Evangelicals ... ?