The team is made up of six teenage girls who traveled over 500 miles to the US embassy in Kabul for their visa interviews. And the visa denial isn't the first obstacle the team has been faced with -- their robotics kit, put together and delivered by the competition, was held at customs for months. The holdup was apparently due to fears surrounding ISIS' use of robots.
The team, brought together by Afghanistan's first woman tech CEO, Roya Mahboob, has designed a ball-sorting robot that will be shipped to the US for the competition and they'll be able to video conference into the event when their robot is evaluated. "Robotics is very, very new in Afghanistan," she told _Forbes_. One of the team members, a 14-year-old girl named Fatemah said, "We want to show the world we can do it, we just need a chance."
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