Ben Dowsett

Oh hey, I forgot!

The incredible @wired.com art team is putting together a video companion for this piece. It will be out early next week. Check back for that!

Thanks to everyone who has shared or said kind words about the piece.

It's great for my own validation lol, but it's even better because I get to send the compliments over to Team Palestine and the kids get to see them. Which is extremely dope.

Appreciate you

From yesterday, a story that means a lot to me and I'm really proud of:

Meet the Palestinian Teens Trying to Win Robotics Gold Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Isra...

Next week, 5 teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions.

The goal? To win—and teach STEM to their peers displaced by Israel's war and occupation of Palestine.

A special oral history for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/meet-t...

I was a referee at this event last year, and it's so inspiring to see what all the teams had to push through to even compete. Great read

Let’s go, Blue Jays. A little more magic.

Excellent article, please give it a read

Means a great deal coming from you. Thank you

Did this today. Really proud of it.

#Robotics #STEM #Palestine

Both of my daughters were involved in the program, if it's FIRST Robotics. The work they are doing is SO important.

I will be keeping this team in my thoughts with best hopes for success!

#FreePalestine

Great article about the amazing Palestinian robotics team. For years my dream as a filmmaker was to portray Palestinians unrelated to war and occupation, but I was never allowed to do it. I'm always so happy when journalists tell these stories instead. Thank you Ben.

Thank you so much!

Sick of only ever reading about Palestinian children as part of a death count?

Yeah, me too. These are people who have hopes and dreams every bit as important as ours.

Here are just a few of their stories:

Yeah, the immense selflessness really stands out. It's incredible to see, even from kids who have so few advantages of their own

One of my sons was on the US winning team back in 2017. FIRST Robotics is wonderful. My son never had one iota of the challenges and I'm going to be more thankful for that. Glad all these kids still got to experience it.

Meet the Palestinian Teens Trying to Win Robotics Gold Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the...

Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Israel-Hamas war.

This is what I'm here for my bro, read about some happy shit despite the world sucking: bsky.app/profile/bend...

A big thanks to @waterslicer.bsky.social, @brbarrett.bsky.social and the entire @wired.com art team for helping make this story incredible. An awesome group to work with.

A true honor to meet these students/mentors and tell their story, which is immensely meaningful to me.

If you have a few mins today, please do me a favor and read/share. These kids deserve it.

Meet the Palestinian Teens Trying to Win Robotics Gold Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Isra...

Next week, 5 teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions.

The goal? To win—and teach STEM to their peers displaced by Israel's war and occupation of Palestine.

A special oral history for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/meet-t...

But enough about Jordan Clarkson

Liking this new thing the NBA introduced where every single national TV game goes to overtime

Aaron Gordon is shooting what for what from 3, now?

I’m making my first foray into writing about this region tomorrow, actually (but it’s nothing like your political analysis, it’s a human interest story). Hope you’ll check it out

It got delayed, but the most relevant/impactful thing I've ever written goes up tomorrow at WIRED. Not a sports story. Never been this excited to share something.

Super cool justice system we've got here, where Chauncey Billups gets nailed for scamming some rich dudes at poker games but not for the virtual certainty that he raped a woman.

(The details allege other methods too, including using rigged shuffling machines.)