Afghan Girls Robotics Team Design Their Future In Qatar

Umer Jamshaid Published September 22, 2021 | 05:10 PM

Doha, Sept 22 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Sep, 2021 ) :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.

"My grandfather used to ask me lots of questions about his tablet and phone," she said with a smile.

"In Afghanistan, robotics is new, especially for women," said Haydarpour, who has three sisters back in Afghanistan.