Work paid off for Watts winners in national engineering contest
Saturday, July 20, 2013 - 23:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Four students from Markham Middle School in Watts poured 500 hours into a prosthetic arm design that took top honors in MESA USA's national contest. "I feel like somebody now," Jacqueline Sanchez says. Julio Romero is an immigrant boy from El Salvador who spoke no English until he was 7 years old and attends a low-income, low-performing middle school in Watts.