Another student who is a part of the larger robotics team at Carl Hayden. He is Cristian’s age and invites Cristian onto the team. Michael helps build the pumpkin-throwing trebuchet, but when the robotics team starts to work on the robot, Michael’s participation is more haphazard. He has a hard time in school and struggles to maintain his grades. Subject to Fredi’s rule that if he cannot keep his grades up he cannot be on the team, Fredi and Allan announce that Michael will be unable to go on the trip to Santa Barbara just one day before they leave, forcing the other students to adapt and shift Michael’s responsibilities to Oscar.
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Michael Hanck Character Timeline in Spare Parts
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...build or an idea to test. Cristian hears about Fredi from a fellow freshman named Michael Hanck, who is building robots in the class. It is what Cristian has been waiting...
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...start, but the kids who show up are thrilled to be a part of it—including Michael Hanck, who had taken Fredi’s marine science class as a freshman and joined the team...
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...Lorenzo and Cristian both sign up for the 7:00 a.m. robotics club class. Together with Michael Hanck, they begin to construct a massive catapult. As their designs grow outlandish, Fredi sees...
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...for being late. When the competition starts, it takes all three of them—Cristian, Oscar, and Michael—to arm the trebuchet. On their first try, the pumpkin flies about 100 feet. They add...
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...at the unusual crew filing into her facility: Cristian, Luis, Lorenzo, Oscar, Fredi, Allan, and Michael Hanck, who is there to help pilot the robot.
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...coming to life. Cristian is in charge of the robot’s up and down movements, while Michael is in charge of moving it left, right, forward, and backward.
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The team hasn’t seen much of Michael lately. He struggled in school and enrolled in summer classes. Fredi and Allan told him...
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...to get it back out because the tether is threaded through the hoop. Cristian and Michael try to drive it back, but Stinky begins to spin erratically before slamming into the...
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Cristian and Michael try piloting the robot through the hoop again, but it veers off a second time...
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...hopeful about their chances. But the day before their departure, Fredi and Allan announce that Michael will not be joining them, since he hasn’t gotten his grades up in summer school....
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