Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Apr 2005 20:21 UTC
This month's Wired magazine has a terriffic story about a team of students from a high school in an economically depressed part of Phoenix, who took part in an underwater-robot building competition against students from the top universities in the country -- and won. All of the students are undocumented Mexican immigrants who don't qualify for most financial aid or even in-state tuition, and therefore can't afford to attend college, in the US, Mexico, or anywhere. When I read the article I determined to try to do something to help give these kids their chance, and I was delighted to discover that their faculty advisor has set up a scholarship fund for them, and I'm about to donate some money to help. I'd like to encourage OSNews readers to read the story, and if they feel the same way, to donate.
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would you find people who want these kids to take a hike because they have not crossed the t's and dotted the eyes. Actually, our country (Canada) is much the same, and it's pathetic. Only a few short years ago millions of Immagrants streamed into the "new world" to make a bteer life from nothing but hard work and tears. So quickly we forget the efforts of our own ancestor's. My great,great grandparents fled to America to escape the persicution happening in Germany and Russia, around the 1860's. By the time my grandfather was 15 he and his 17 year old brother left America to come to Canada to farm along the Canadian Railway line. Land was GIVEN to them, so long as they agreed to work it. They were treated for the first twenty years or so in much the same way some of the readers treat these kids, with great animosity. They stayed anyways, payed thier taxes, and now some 500 to 1000 of us direct descendants of these two brave "kids" are all paying taxes. Since niether of them could read or right, they couldn't even sign papers, let alone build robots. All I'm saying is, given half a chance , your country could REALLY benifit from these guys. Hey , if you don't want them, send them our way, as we are suffering from a severe brain drain up here(seems the almighty dollar is causing our university students to run south at record speed). I believe most of the underdeveloped countries in the world have alot to offer the West, and if they can stand the cold, they are welcome here.