The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts by Neal Bascomb
Nonfiction
What a great read! Exciting science, nail-biting drama, and fun too. The FIRST program presents challenges teams have to solve by building robots that can answer the challenge set that year. A few of the participating teams get some airtime here, but the real stars of the show are the DPenguineers from Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy. Teacher Amir Abo-Shaeer and his students and volunteers take on the challenge in 2009. Through incredibly hard work, long hours, and teamwork, they build and refine their robot in preparation for the regional and national competitions.