20 Jul Mashable — The Afghan girls robotics team just won a silver medal

The all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan that was initially denied entry to the United States for an international competition is taking home the silver medal.

Fittingly, they received a the accolade for “courageous achievement” at the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition where teams were asked to come up with an idea for providing access clean water.

Initially, the team had been denied entry to the United States at least twice, but were finally granted visas thanks to an intervention from an unlikely source: President Donald Trump.

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