Afghan girls win European prize for solar-powered farming robot

Post by yorwba » Sat, Dec 02, 2017, 12:36 PM UTC

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I'd like to encourage their achievement, but it's not clear what they achieved. > The team’s winning entry was a solar-powered robot that would help small farmers carry out tasks including seeding and cutting crops like wheat Apart from the general idea, what was created? Here's a more detailed article from the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/world/afghanistan-girls-r... > The team, which had only two we…

Thank you for doing this research. This looks fabricated, the same way Abdul's clock was. In response to the guy down here (I can't post anymore): the fact that they "won a prize", as shown in the title of this post, is highly misleading, when it was just a consolation prize. THe takeaway of these news is "look at everything the US is missing for not opening their borders", and this being a consolation prize, the US…

Post by austincheney » Sat, Dec 02, 2017, 1:36 PM UTC

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So what's the actual news here? That they were denied entry in the US? Should we feel bad about it or what? There's 0 insight into what they achieved and the reporter even got the name of the European country wrong. Looks like propaganda to me. Edit: yes, it's propaganda: "Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, p…

> So what's the actual news here? School girls from Afghanistan built a solar powered robot. That's news because this is something which is very hard to do in the absence of the many privileges that would make such an achievement easy. > That they were denied entry in the US? Yes. That too is news worthy and was covered extensively. > Should we feel bad about it or what? Maybe. But rather than feeling bad wouldn't it…

Post by orf » Sat, Dec 02, 2017, 2:01 PM UTC

Post by nasredin » Sat, Dec 02, 2017, 2:18 PM UTC

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Holy hell, what are these comments. A group of girls form a pretty messed up country had the willing and the guts to go ahead and submit anything to this competition, knowing full well they would be at a disadvantage compared to other first world countries, and coming from a very male orientated culture. Their parts where late and they only had two weeks to build it. Meanwhile a single accurate quote about how they w…

Post by lackdaisacal » Sat, Dec 02, 2017, 2:55 PM UTC

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spayu61 wrote: post #2

So what's the actual news here? That they were denied entry in the US? Should we feel bad about it or what? There's 0 insight into what they achieved and the reporter even got the name of the European country wrong. Looks like propaganda to me. Edit: yes, it's propaganda: "Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, p…

Apart from just celebrating that a group of teens won a competition, there are several newsy points, though all beg further questions. The fact that a team of girls from Afghanistan built a robot. That seems amazing, but what were the circumstances around that? An all-girl tech team from Afghanistan seems like a political statement in itself; was there a boy's team, or a mixed team, for example? Were they poor kids?…