Luis Aranda
Luis Aranda is portrayed as “a six-foot, 250-pound hulk of a kid who looked like Chief from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. Born in Cuernavaca to a housecleaner and a construction worker, Luis is the just one of the four boys who has lawful perpetual residency in the United States. He works for late shifts as a short-request cook and frequently resembles he is about to nod off. He decides to try out Fredi's Marine Science Seminar in his senior year since he figures it will be a simple class. His teammates enroll him for the robotics competition to some extent “because they needed someone strong enough to lift the robot in and out of the pool.” Luis is definitely not a windbag talker, so when he accurately responds to a NASA judge's inquiry regarding pulse-width modulation, he is uncovered to be more engaged with the team's prosperity than it appears.
Oscar Vazquez
Oscar Vazquez, as Luis, is a senior in the Marine Science Seminar when Fredi urges him to join the club. A "standout cadet" in Carl Hayden's JROTC program, Oscar is gutsy, splendid, and a decent pioneer. He is crushed when he discovers that his dream of joining the military will not occur because he does not have a green card. He does not surrender and keeps on winning honors and procure rank in his program. He can think about mechanical engineering at Arizona State University because of grant cash from ASU-subsidiary gatherings, WIRED magazine readers, and the generous gift from Luis of his very own scholarship cash. After graduation, Oscar settles on the troublesome choice to cross the outskirt into Mexico and apply for lawful passage to the US. Following a time of dissents, Oscar gets one of the essences of the DREAM Act. He is conceded perpetual residency and satisfies his fantasy about joining the United States Army.
Cristian Arcega
Cristian Arcega is the physical inverse of Luis. Davis portrays him as “a skinny, five-foot-two science ace, one of the few nerds at Carl Hayden, a school where 71.17 percent of students received free or subsidized lunches because they were below the poverty line”. Born in Mexicali and brought to the US at the age of five, Cristian lives in “an eight-foot-by-eight-foot plywood box slapped onto the side of a trailer in a mobile-home park”. He builds up his English language capacities by watching Bob Vila's home advancement network show.
