The Future Of The Afghan Girls Robotics Team Is Precarious

The Afghan Girls Robotics Team works on their robot at a 2017 competition in Washington. The Afghan Girls Robotics Team works on their robot at a 2017 competition in Washington. The Afghan Girls Robotics Team made headlines in 2017 when they came to Washington for an international competition just a few blocks from the White House. Most members of the team were born after the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001, symbolizing a new Afghanistan where girls were free to go to school and women were getting at least some opportunities that had been long denied. But with the Taliban back, the future of these girls -- some of them now young women -- has turned precarious.