Afghan girls robotics team design their future in Qatar
The Hindu
The girls evacuated to Qatar were placed in one of three institutions depending on their needs with full scholarships granted by Doha
The nine members of an all-girl Afghan robotics team evacuated from Kabul to Qatar have built on their star status and captured hearts since fleeing their homeland.
Now back in education and working on their entries for a global robotics competition, the girls worry about their immediate future but hope they can one day return to Afghanistan.
Team member Ayda Haydarpour, 17, who switched onto digital engineering playing Super Mario as a child, said it was "too hard" to follow events in Afghanistan but hopes to return to open the first STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) school.
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