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07-01-2017, 09:07 AM
This girls robotics team from Afghanistan was denied visas for a U.S. competition
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A robotics competition team of Afghan girls won't be able to watch their creation compete in person.
They were recently denied one-week visas to the United States to come to Washington, D.C., for the First Global Challenge, a new robotics competition that focuses on providing clean water (http://first.global/fgc/global-first-challenge/).
SEE ALSO: U.S. visa applicants may have to hand over their social media handles (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/visa-social-media-handles/)
The team twice traveled the roughly 500-mile distance to the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, for visa interviews (https://www.forbes.com/sites/hilarybrueck/2017/06/29/denied-afghanistans-all-girl-robotics-team-cant-get-visas-to-the-u-s/#41d57af6367f), but officials denied them.
"I wanted this to happen badly, I really did," said First Global President Joe Sestak, a former Navy admiral and former member of Congress. "These girls are courageous." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/afghanistan-robotics-team-girls-denied-visa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A robotics competition team of Afghan girls won't be able to watch their creation compete in person.
They were recently denied one-week visas to the United States to come to Washington, D.C., for the First Global Challenge, a new robotics competition that focuses on providing clean water (http://first.global/fgc/global-first-challenge/).
SEE ALSO: U.S. visa applicants may have to hand over their social media handles (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/visa-social-media-handles/)
The team twice traveled the roughly 500-mile distance to the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, for visa interviews (https://www.forbes.com/sites/hilarybrueck/2017/06/29/denied-afghanistans-all-girl-robotics-team-cant-get-visas-to-the-u-s/#41d57af6367f), but officials denied them.
"I wanted this to happen badly, I really did," said First Global President Joe Sestak, a former Navy admiral and former member of Congress. "These girls are courageous." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/afghanistan-robotics-team-girls-denied-visa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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