Afghan Girls Robotics Team Awarded Silver Medal For 'Courageous Achievement'
/Afghan Girls Robotics Team Awarded Silver Medal For 'Courageous Achievement'
On Tuesday July 18, 2017 the Afghan team was awarded a special silver medal for "courageous achievement" at the FIRST Global Challenge. The New York Times added:
For three days in the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, where an African-American woman was once denied the right to sing before an integrated audience in the 1930s, the Afghan girls in head scarves were stars on an international stage, with cameras, lights and whispers trailing them from practice to competition.