Where are these engineering geniuses now?

You seem overly bitter about this. Like, way over the top bitter. You a MIT grad? The MIT graduates you listed were in college, probably studying engineering. The Carl Hayden guys were in high school. Sorry bud, you mad?

I basically respond to these like once a year, mainly because I am too busy, well, living life. You seem way too far into proving that those guys aren't worth anything. My father was a janitor for General Motors and brought home 6 figures. Oh that's right, it's about status right? I fly a small airplane in Alaska, making sure the natives get food and I get payed *beep* But then again, it's not flying a 747 into Chicago right? I love my life though, and who says those guys don't? I bet you enjoy that steak served just right from the line cook don't ya?

The is an overdramatised movie based on true events.
There are several deviation from the real story, but they did win the competition.
That doesn't make them geniuses, at least not in my book, but I have no problem with acknowledging their archievment that is celebrated with this movie.
Their personal careers or failures don't diminish that archievement.

You seem to have a problem with acknowledging that archievment. Because your life is a failure and therefore you seek attention here?

All i see here are titles not the stories behind them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/opinion/the-cruel-waste-of-americas-tech-talent.html

If you will read the full stories you will two of them attended university and got deported/unfunded. Also the cook and the janitor didn't want to attend uni, doesn't mean they aren't smart or good at engineering.

It is so typical and unfortunate to look at job titles of people and from that infer about all of their life, their intelligence or etc... There is much more that that in real life.

Here you can see for example your "stupid" "no good Home depot salesman" asking for money to attend and learn:
https://www.crowdismo.com/project/cristian-arcega-dream-build

Well, if only he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, too bad that means he is also not smart.

Yes a bunch of privileged white guys got better jobs then illegal immigrant latino's, what is the big reveal?!?
You are just a sad little racist aren't you?

they indeed got public funding for their achievements. Then, republicans passed a law forbidding the use of public funding to illegals. Suddenly tuition became 3 times more expensive and most had to quit.

It is perfectly common high IQ, skills and poor origins combine into a humble income. Anyway, a cheerleader may get a position as president even by minority vote when he uses the right surname.

Well, you are right in a way. Winning one event is not evidence of broad knowledge.

But the real propaganda was about illegal immigrations. The film depicted illegal immigrants as the victims of their own crimes. What nonsense!

Which of the characters were portrayed as geniuses? The only one would be Christian. Oscar was obviously smart. Lorenzo was basically a mechanic and has natural technical ability. That's not uncommon. My dad and brothers are all naturally gifted when it comes to mechanics but never formally trained. Also Louis was not portrayed as being remotely a genius. If anything he was portrayed as having a lower IQ but was able to learn what they were doing from the others. I don't really see why you're acting as if the movie was lying. Obviously some things were exaggerated but even at the end it told us Lorenzo became a chef.