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Jan 16, 2015 · It helps immensely that the film’s star, producer and Sidney Poitier fill-in, the eminently likable George Lopez in a rare dramatic role as a PhD-toting engineer forced to be a substitute science teacher, is clearly wearing his own heart on his sleeve in this true-life underdog story. Just as Poitier ended up serving as a mentor and father ...
Jan 14, 2015 · The Real People Who Inspired The Film 'Spare Parts' 09:25Resume. January 14, 2015. This article is more than 9 years old. In 2004, a team of high school students from Carl Hayden Community High...
NPR was really one of the first places where we actually got our story out. … It’s definitely partly that [the community] didn’t really comprehend the extent of our victory and what it meant.
Jan 16, 2015 · “Spare Parts” tells the true story—and most of the events portrayed in the film actually happened, according to Oscar Vasquez, who the main high school student character is based on, and according to Lopez—about four undocumented immigrant high school students who are as lovable, ambitious, hard-working as they are intelligent, and who ...
Jan 14, 2015 · Cristian Arcega, one of the Carl Hayden Community High School students who inspired the film “Spare Parts.” He tweets @Cristian_Arcega. Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. In 2004, a team of high school students defeated college teams, including MIT, in an underwater robotic competition.
Jan 15, 2015 · The film is based on Joshua Davis' book (in turn, based on his article for Wired magazine), which told the story of a robotics team from Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix.
Jan 15, 2015 · Already the subject of a documentary, the underdog story of a team of Arizona high-school inventors, all undocumented Mexican Americans, gets the narrative-feature treatment in Spare Parts.The ...
