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Spare Parts (Joshua Davis)

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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream is Joshua Davis’s narrative nonfiction account of a 2004 underwater robotics team from Carl Hayden Community High School in West Phoenix, Arizona. It follows Oscar Vazquez, Cristian Arcega, Lorenzo Santillan, and Luis Aranda, Mexican-born students brought to the United States as children who lacked legal immigration status. Guided by teachers Fredi Lajvardi and Allan Cameron, they build a remotely operated underwater vehicle from inexpensive, scavenged materials and enter the Marine Advanced Technology Education competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The contest supplies the book’s dramatic structure, but Davis uses it to examine far larger questions: unequal educational resources, the practical meaning of STEM access, anti-immigrant politics, and the instability that undocumented young people confront even after exceptional achievement. Combining reported profiles, technical problem solving, family histories, and policy context, the book challenges a simple underdog narrative. Winning a competition matters, yet it does not erase the legal and economic barriers shaping the students’ futures.