AZ. by his parents when he was 12 years old. He spent his high school years in Junior ROTC and dreamed of one day enlisting in the U.S. military. At the end of his junior year. the recruiting officer told Oscar he was ineligible for military service because he was undocumented. He was devastated. But he found another outlet for his talent. Oscar. because of the help of 2 energetic science teachers. was enrolled in a college division robot competition sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. With 3 other undocumented students. Oscar worked for months in a windowless storage room in his high school and tested their invention at a. scuba training pool on the weekends. Competing against students from MIT and other top universities.
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