- Haitian Teens Earn Spot in Robotics Contest With Winning Robot
- The article highlights Margely Saint-Pierre, 17, whose high school in Haiti was destroyed in last year's earthquake. "It's like a dream come true," said Margely, 17, who saw 10 friends die in the aftermath of last year's earthquake before his parents sent him to stay with his uncle, a police officer who lives in Brooklyn. The junior, with an 80 average, is just one of a dozen students on the school's robotics team who emigrated from Haiti — half of them since the earthquake.
Now that they have won the berth, they need to raise money to get to the St. Louis science competition to show and prove their mettle. It will cost about $15,000 for the It Takes a Village team to attend the three-day robotics competition, which starts on April 27.
These teenagers are demonstrating that tragedy does not have to define you.
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- World’s Oldest Woman: Record Won’t Be Recognized
- Lanier has witnessed more than 20 presidents and lived through two world wars. She's outlived her husband and daughters. And after all this, she's still suffering residual effects of the racial inequality that existed more than a century ago, when she was born.
"It's quite a rigorous process that you go through because the birth certificate is a crucial matter," a Guinness World Records spokesman told MailOnline, explaining why Lanier's age won't be recognized.
We're all for having standards to prove record-setting claims, but there must be other options here. Or, if Guinness World Records is going to insist upon measures that mean entire groups of people are disqualified because of the historical circumstances of their birth, perhaps they should consider a name change to Guinness White American Records.
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