All-Girls Robotics Team Returns From Mexico

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The all-girl Afghan robotics team returned home on Sunday after wrapping up a successful tour of Mexico.

The robots created by the girls won a major award at FIRST Global Challenge 2018 robot competition between high school students from around the world.

“We won the safety award from among 25 awards, the competition was among 175 countries,” said one member of the robotics team Lida Azizi.

FIRST Global, a STEM-focused international nonprofit that organizes an annual international robotics competition for high-school students from around the world, held this year’s event, from August 15 to 18, in Mexico City’s Arena Ciudad de México.

At least 160 countries took part.

More than 1,000 high school students between ages of 14 and 18 represented their countries in the “Energy Impact” competition to improve the environment. Each team, consisting of up to five high school students, had a standard kit of parts to build a robot capable of feeding power plants to scale and build a transmission network in the most efficient way.

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