U.S. DENIED VISAS FOR AFGHANISTAN’S ALL-GIRL ROBOTICS TEAM. LOOK WHERE THEY ARE NOW.

It is extremely difficult to get robotics equipment through customs in Afghanistan; however, this did not stop Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team from working hard and accomplishing their goals. For months, a team of teenage girls had been working to build a ball-sorting robot that will compete in the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition […]

CODE TO (INSPIRE)

“WE ARE GOING TO EMPOWER GIRLS ONLINE WITHOUT BEING WORRIED OF PHYSICAL & GEOGRAPHICAL DISTANCES.” In 2015, Fereshteh Forough, a former professor of computer science at Herat University, created an all-female coding school in Afghanistan. Code to Inspire is a nonprofit organization committed to teaching female students in Afghanistan how to code. It aims to […]