Tommy Tainant
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Afghanistan's all-girl robotics team banned from entering US - but their robot will be allowed in
Six teenage girls from Afghanistan have been denied visas to travel to the US for an international robotics competition, but they will be permitted to send their ball-sorting contraption to compete without them.
The aspiring inventors wept when they heard they couldn't escort their machine to Washington DC for the First Global Challenge, an annual contest for high school students from across the world.
It seems to me that this sort of event is exactly the sort of thing we should be encouraging as part of the process of bringing that backward country into the modern world.
Six teenage girls from Afghanistan have been denied visas to travel to the US for an international robotics competition, but they will be permitted to send their ball-sorting contraption to compete without them.
The aspiring inventors wept when they heard they couldn't escort their machine to Washington DC for the First Global Challenge, an annual contest for high school students from across the world.
It seems to me that this sort of event is exactly the sort of thing we should be encouraging as part of the process of bringing that backward country into the modern world.