The USHLI National Conference will host a "Underwater Dreams Documentary" showing at 1:45pm on Saturday, February 14. A Question and Answer panel consisting of three cast members and a colleague who also worked on the project will follow. USHLI appreciates Target's sponsorship.
Underwater Dreams is an epic story of how four sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants learned how to build an underwater robot from Home Depot parts and, in a national robotics competition, defeated engineering powerhouse MIT in the process.
Underwater Dreams, written and directed by Mary Mazzio, is about two energetic high school science teachers who, on a whim, decided to enter their high school, a Title I school where most of the students live in poverty, into a sophisticated underwater robotics competition sponsored by the NASA and the Office of Naval Research, among others. Only four boys signed up for the competition, but once assembled, with enthusiasm and verve, they started calling oceanic engineers and military contractors for design help. They were advised that their underwater robot would require glass syntactic flotation foam. Short on money, all they could afford was PVC pipe from Home Depot and some duct tape.
This rag-tag high school team of undocumented Mexican boys did what no one thought possible. The competition, however, was only the beginning. These boys forged a legacy that could not have been imagined. All participants are asked to RSVP due to limited seating in our improvised theater. The showing of the documentary will be immediately following the Latino Leaders Recognition Luncheon on Saturday.
Click here to register for the National Conference and click here to see a 90-second video featuring highlights from past conferences.
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