They are either seeking asylum or seeking to blow something up.
No. I used to be a FIRST Robotics mentor. These are serious competitions with serious kids. Generally the international teams are there not only to compete but to represent their country.
Likely these kids have aspirations toward Engineering careers and have worked for years to earn their place in this competition.
In my teams case, we met year round and put in hundreds of hours in the weeks preceding competition. They are given the competition parameters and rules and have 6 weeks to design, build, test and often rebuild their robot. Lots of long nights.
In my son’s case, he parlayed that into acceptance in an aerospace engineering school with a good amount of scholarship money. He graduates next year.
I hope they are OK.
Or just hoping to not live in a sewer anymore and taking a shortcut to get there.
Given the fact that Burundi is 90% Christian and is very much a hellhole, the former is more likely than the latter.
Just send out a robot vacuum cleaner to look for them
- it`ll clean up D.C while it`s searching or them.
I don’t know, but I think it’s likely that they’re seeking asylum. These are smart, upper-class kids from a largely Christian nation. Makes sense that they’d try for Canada, because they may very well speak French; and they may perceive Canadian immigration regulations as less strict than ours.
I don’t know how the visa issues will translate - they may be sent back to the US (?)