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The Afghan all-girls robotics team have been offered scholarships at 'incredible universities,' says Oklahoma mother who helped them escape the Taliban
Business Insider ^ | 22 August 2021 | Sophia ankel

Posted on 08/26/2021 9:12:24 AM PDT by Cronos

A 60-year-old Oklahoma mother who helped several members of an internationally recognized all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan escape the country said they are feeling "so grateful" to be out.

On Tuesday, 10 of the so-called "Afghan Dreamers," aged 16 to 18, were able to leave Kabul on a commercial flight to Doha, Qatar, after several failed attempts to flee the country.

One of the people who helped them get out was Allyson Reneau, a mother-of-11 from Oklahoma, who first met the girls at a Humans to Mars summit in Washington DC in May 2019.

..."I got a text from one of the girls that just said: 'We did it.' All the emotion from two weeks of work and running into a wall constantly, and burying your feelings, and bearing your feelings for the girls, it just hit me all at once."

They were initially not able to obtain their visas to travel, but an intervention by former President Donald Trump allowed them to fly to DC and compete.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; oklahoma; roboticsteam; trump; wboopi; women
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To: Renfrew

Basically, the leftists (democrats) know that making their voters lives a hot mess works for them.

Their voters are too stupid, ignorant and lazy to do any real thinking about why their lives and environment (city, neighborhood, state) is such a catastrophe. Instead, they just take the path of least resistance which is to believe what the media and their leaders tell them: It’s republicans and white people that are all the problem.

As a result, importing crime in the form of young, uncivilized males is a big win for them, but importing civilized, educated people that might make their voters lives better is a big loser for them.


21 posted on 08/26/2021 9:29:06 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: MNDude

They seem happy to be here,too.


22 posted on 08/26/2021 9:29:34 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Cronos

Why didn’t they stay and fight?

Why should have our soldiers fought for them if they are not willing to fight?


23 posted on 08/26/2021 9:29:35 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Cronos

Their families will be killed.


24 posted on 08/26/2021 9:30:24 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Cronos

Like I said on another thread, we should have spent the last 20 years teaching Afghan women to be proficient with AKs and knives.


25 posted on 08/26/2021 9:34:01 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Cronos

I am afraid to ask,”What the hell is a robotics team?”


26 posted on 08/26/2021 9:38:37 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: PLMerite

“Like I said on another thread, we should have spent the last 20 years teaching Afghan women to be proficient with AKs and knives.”

If 2,500 women would slit the throat’s of their forced marriage husbands, it would end forced marriage. It is hard to sleep at night if you have to wonder whether your throat will be slit every night.


27 posted on 08/26/2021 9:40:53 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Cronos

Maybe they will be invited to the White House like Clock Boy. /S


28 posted on 08/26/2021 9:44:08 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto”


29 posted on 08/26/2021 9:46:07 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat (.)
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To: Don Corleone
There are a few of those competition organizations; but, FIRST is foremost among them. It brings kids into STEM through robot building and competition. It is a good program. I was a mentor for this program for about five years. It was a great thing experience.
30 posted on 08/26/2021 9:48:20 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: americas.best.days...

Not to worry, Biden’s gonna decree a student debt jubilee.


31 posted on 08/26/2021 9:50:30 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: dfwgator

Feel good story but not why we went to Afghanistan.


32 posted on 08/26/2021 9:51:49 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Cronos

Let her take care of them.


33 posted on 08/26/2021 9:55:06 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: Cronos

And the All Boys Robotics Team was offered ...? Bullets? Positions on some warlord’s knee?


34 posted on 08/26/2021 10:22:54 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: dfwgator

Biteme’s admin will be stepping up to claim the praise.


35 posted on 08/26/2021 11:05:28 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Speaking of, I wonder if Clock Boy ended up joining The Taliban?


36 posted on 08/26/2021 11:14:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Seruzawa

I don’t think there are wines that age that well.


37 posted on 08/26/2021 11:34:17 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Renfrew
This is all I get from your link (picture):







38 posted on 08/26/2021 2:04:22 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: GingisK

Yes, they are a FIRST Robotics Competition Team.
https://first.global/in-the-news/the-afghan-dreamers-aim-to-save-lives/


39 posted on 08/26/2021 2:12:25 PM PDT by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

These Afghans are “white” - they are of Indo-European genetics.


40 posted on 08/27/2021 12:43:27 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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