COSI and the PAST Foundation are coming together to help extend the dreams of younger students by hosting a free viewing of the documentary Underwater Dreams Oct. 2 at 5:30 p.m.
The film – written and directed by Mary Mazzio, and narrated by Michael Peña – tells the story of how the sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants built an underwater robot from department store parts and how they defeated MIT in robotics competition. The documentary has been featured in the NY Times, as well as on NPR, FOX and NBC.
The AMC Lennox Town Center 24, located at 777 Kinear Rd., will host the screening.
This event is free, but those who wish to attend must register online at https://pastinnovationlab.org/
There are dream teams, and there are teams with dreams. This is a story of two high school science teachers with big dreams and the students that followed them to create a legacy.
In 2004, they formed a robotics team – more on a whim than based on any skills. After all, the kids went to a Title 1 school where most of the students live in poverty. They were the children of undocumented immigrants and there wasn’t a robotics engineer in the group.
What they lacked in experience, they made up for in unbridled enthusiasm. They entered. They persevered. And they came home winners.
Underwater Dreams is their story and it’s our story. Each of us can dream big, win big!
