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US denies visas to Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:00 am
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:00 am
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Six teenage girls from Afghanistan planned to come to the US to compete in the First Global Challenge robotics competition this month, but those plans were canceled after they were denied visas to enter the country. Forbes reports that the girls traveled 500 miles to Kabul for their visa interviews, and that their robot’s supplies were held in customs for months.
This kit, which the competition organizers issued to every participating team, included different components, like brackets, extrusions, fastening hardware, hardware adaptors, bearings, wheels of different sizes, gears, pulleys, motors, servos, and sprockets. The State Department feared ISIS might try to use these parts on the battlefield, which is why they delayed sending them to the girls.
Still, the team built a ball-sorting robot on a shortened timeline; their kit only arrived three weeks ago. More than 100 other teams have entered the competition, including participants from Iraq, Iran, and Sudan. The girls’ robot will still compete, but the team will only be able to watch over a video call from their homes in Herat, Afghanistan.
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Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:03 am to Street Hawk
Good, Muslims+Robotics = trouble.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:04 am to Street Hawk
I think one already made it here.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:04 am to Street Hawk
quote:
robots
Like a clock?
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:05 am to Street Hawk
Afghan girls in school, suspicious. Enough for plane tickets, doubly suspicious. Robots? Trouble
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:06 am to Street Hawk
Ok. We'll go compete with the Euros
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:26 am to Street Hawk
My God, our government is so incompetent it can't vet 6 girls?
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:37 am to Street Hawk
It's a clock you bigots
Posted on 7/1/17 at 10:45 am to Street Hawk
Good. Freedom starts at home. Get together in your country and fight for the freedom you want like that is here in the US.
Yes some of them will die but freedom comes at cost.
Yes some of them will die but freedom comes at cost.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 11:00 am to Street Hawk
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Forbes reports that the girls traveled 500 miles to Kabul for their visa interviews, and that their robot’s supplies were held in customs for months.
So, was it the Obama administration that kept them out? The article is curiously uninformative about this.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 11:06 am to Street Hawk
Look, son, there's going to be some collateral damage.
Pull your panties out your pussy.
Pull your panties out your pussy.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 11:21 am to Street Hawk
I don't care. That's life
Posted on 7/1/17 at 11:49 am to Street Hawk
Trump's genius is revealed. Your savior media isn't even talking about this, they're all yaking non stop about tweets.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 12:01 pm to Street Hawk
This is technically the liberals fault.
Just think. If they never fought the ban, the time frame would have long passed and these girls would be able to fulfill their dreams.
But no. The liberals are obstructionists and care nothing about others.
Its unreal
Just think. If they never fought the ban, the time frame would have long passed and these girls would be able to fulfill their dreams.
But no. The liberals are obstructionists and care nothing about others.
Its unreal
Posted on 7/1/17 at 12:14 pm to Street Hawk
Winning hearts and minds
Posted on 7/1/17 at 12:31 pm to Street Hawk
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their robot’s supplies were held in customs for months.
So, just out of curiosity when did they apply for their visas?
Posted on 7/1/17 at 12:34 pm to Street Hawk
Look at all the big, tough men afraid of teenage girls. Y'all are hilarious.
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