Finally, there is Padua. They look tense, almost nervous. Franco is thinking that all this needless commotion had to have a negative effect on them. Team Padua is defeated, and goes on to place fourth overall. The M.I.T. crowd goes crazy.
Honor is preserved.
Franco is crestfallen. Ah well, he figures, given the stacked odds against them, the Italians still won a huge victory that night. Moreover, he proved his point about how good Italians are at high tech innovation. Well, they realized that the altar on which they had previously placed our world famous M.I.T. wasn't so great after all. The gold-colored M.I.T. school ring features a beaver as the school logo.