Pakistan’s robotics team heads to US

The team will work with international teams to accomplish engineering tasks focused on improving access to clean water

ISLAMABAD: As many as six Pakistani students and their mentors left for the United States on Friday to participate in the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition in Washington DC.

The Pakistani team, which is backed by the American Embassy in Islamabad, will work with teams from across the world to accomplish engineering tasks focused on improving access to clean water.

American Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Jonathan Pratt encouraged the team to collaborate with their counterparts from the US States and approximately 160 other nations.

“I hope you take advantage of the opportunity to share ideas about how to use robotics to solve some of the biggest problems that Pakistan, the United States, and other countries around the world face,” Pratt said.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 15^th, 2017.