This year's One Book selection, 备件, chronicles an unlikely team that prevailed in a prestigious robotics competition. （封面图片由Farrar， Straus和Giroux提供）迪克西·里德
2004年，来自亚利桑那州西凤凰城的一支乌合之众的高中球队。在一场水下机器人比赛中，美国麻省理工学院击败了美国麻省理工学院。
That team's story became the New York Times best-seller 备件：四个无证青少年，一个丑陋的机器人，以及为美国梦而战 by Joshua Davis (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014). The moving tale is 萨克拉门托 State’s One Book choice for 2019-20.
“The selection of 备件 as this year’s One Book will help our campus community understand the ramifications of undocumented status in student lives, from the personal to the academic,” said Viridiana Diaz, assistant vice president for Strategic Diversity Initiatives.
“Learning about the frustrations, fears and limitations experienced by these four students brings attention to the awareness and sensitivity needed for an inclusive campus," Diaz said.
"This book makes you reflect on what it means to be American and the value our undocumented youth bring to this campus and the country.”
囊状态’s One Book season kicks off on Friday, Nov. 8, at the Harper Alumni Center. 需要在网上回复。
Following an 11:30 a.m. luncheon will be a screening of 备件, the 2015 movie based on Davis’ book and starring George Lopez, Marisa Tomei, and Jamie Lee Curtis. 获奖机器人团队成员奥斯卡·瓦斯奎兹（Oscar Vasquez）将于下午2点加入派对，进行直播对话。
该片还将于11月19日（周二）下午3:30和7点在Riverview Hall放映两场。 不需要预订。
戴维斯定于12月2日星期一来到校园，参加中午在多元文化中心举行的签售会，并于下午6点在大学宴会厅举行社区讲座。 RSVP 签售会 and 这堂课 can be made online.
Author Joshua Davis will be on campus Dec. 2 to discuss his book, 备件. （图片由Joshua Davis提供）Davis first wrote about the undocumented teens and their stunning win for 《连线》杂志 magazine, where he was a contributing editor.
Science teachers at West Phoenix’s Carl Hayden Community High School, where 80 percent the students lived below the poverty line, had challenged four of their students to build an underwater robot for the third annual Remotely Operated Vehicle Competition, at UC Santa Barbara.
The boys – an ROTC cadet, a would-be gang member, a brainy nerd, and a quiet, towering giant – cobbled together an underwater robot from PVC pipe and scavenged parts. They named it “Stinky,” in reference to the smelly rubber glue that held everything together.
“The teachers had entered the club in the expert-level 探索r class instead of the beginner Ranger class.,” Davis wrote. “They figured their students would lose anyway, and there was more honor in losing to the college kids in the 探索r division than to the high schoolers in Ranger.
“Their real goal was to show the students that there were opportunities outside West Phoenix. The teachers wanted to give their kids hope.”
萨克拉门托 State’s One Book Program was established in 2008 to introduce the campus community and the 萨克拉门托 region to writers who have addressed contemporary issues in a compelling way.
2019-20“一本书”庆祝活动由“一本书”计划、多元化与包容性中心、大学援助移民计划（CAMP）、工程与计算机科学学院、学生事务部、梦想家资源中心、第一年体验、MESA工程计划、塞尔纳中心和大学住房服务共同举办。