Obstacles such as bumper problems, the main student driving the robot being sick, and a lower ranking that did not reflect their actual performance were not enough to stop them and the Churrobots managed to remain competitive.

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“This means a lot to us. This is like our first time that we ever won. This is the farthest we’ve ever made it. The second that we heard we were going [to the world championship] we all started jumping, we all started screaming. The moment was blissful. It was just so amazing.” -Angel Fernandez, Churrobots member

MEAN MACHINES … A group of students from East Palo Alto schools celebrated a big victory earlier this month when their team crushed it in a regional robotics competition and booked its ticket to Houston for the World Championships.

An East Palo Alto robotics team is headed to Houston, TX to take part in the world championship competition. The Hope Horizon East Palo Alto ChurroBots are a community-based team, with over a dozen students from different area high schools.

El equipo llamado ChurrosBots construyó un robot y ahora irán a Texas a mostrar sus habilidades.

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Hope Horizon East Palo Alto (previously Bayshore Christian Ministries), which teaches life skills to youth, is also among the recipients. “This vote of confidence in the work we have been doing in East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park since 1984 is a great encouragement to our community of students, families, churches, volunteers, donors and prayer warriors,” Executive Director Tiffany Hong said in a statement.

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Bayshore Christian Ministries was honored for its "Field of Hope," which was built with the help of Palo Alto native Jeremy Lin.

Current TUFs are working to build a new park at an underutilized lot near Bayshore Christian Ministries in East Palo Alto. Over the course of the last nine months and several semesters, Dorsey said, students have gone through the landscape design process.

A group of elementary- and middle school-aged children is learning the art of teamwork while building robots out of Legos.

The four girls created their app in 12 weeks, working on two borrowed laptops for just four hours each week at Bayshore Christian Ministries in East Palo Alto.