When the Brooklyn School for Social Justice (BSSJ) teacher Rocio Montero began a robotics class this year, she knew it would be tough to secure costs and gain access to the computer science industry.

“They have so much potential but they just don’t have the opportunity. It’s crazy. The students in our communities just have little to no access,” says Montero.

Almost 30 Bushwick students joined together in-and-out of the classroom to build a Mars Rover replication —a motor vehicle made by NASA capable of exploring Mars’ surface. Montero shares that although building robots is possible for everybody, everyone can’t afford to. For these Bushwick students, it proved that all they needed was the opportunity.