Teenage veterans of the global FIRST® Robotics Competition are helping coronavirus patients in Afghanistan by making ventilators out of car parts. The ingenious young women are using the engineering skills they developed in the Bechtel-supported FIRST engineering tournament along with the mentoring of Roya Mahboob, an entrepreneur who has been among Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, to deliver ventilators to hospitals for around $600 each, a fraction of the market price. The girls, aged between 14 and 17, come from Herat, where Afghanistan reported its first…
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