Allan Cameron joins us today to share an incredible story that made Wired magazine. Allan led a small team of underprivileged high school students with no technical backgrounds of any kind (and minimal English-speaking abilities for that matter) to beat the MIT college team in a national robotics championship. In this real-life Stand and Deliver story (the movie rights for which were recently purchased by Warner Brothers) Allan’s students prove that it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. Towards the end we dig into the problems with the notoriously lagging Arizona public education system and hear Allan’s take on what we can and should be doing to turn things around.

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