Hello everyone… we are Team Iraq. The national representation of the Iraqi nation in the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge and the past six years too. Team Iraq is one of the projects of the Science Camp. (Science Camp is the first physical Maker Space/Fab Lab in Iraq (according to the MITs standards)), part of the global maker movement and global innovation gathering (gig e.v), registered in Iraq as NGO and Robots factory.

Science Camp is working in Iraq to support STEM and technology-dependent entrepreneurship, working together with our international friends on mindset change and a cultural shift of youth towards entrepreneurship, innovation, digital transformation, and countering Climate Change, Science Camp is part of the Fab Labs network working on the UN SDGs since 2019 and team Iraq members are part of the Science Camp community.

Our team consists of students from different schools in Basra City. They meet in the Science Camp (the Iraqi Maker Space/Fab Lab) where they develop a connection with each other and work to represent their country internationally and make relationships with their international STEM-interested peers from other FIRST Global international teams. Our team is interested and passionate in robotics and STEM fields and each of us has skills that, when combined, will create a wonderful team with great results.

This is our organization’s seventh time building, curing, and supporting team Iraq in the FIRST Global Challenge and this participation will allow us to be a source of inspiration for youth in local and international countries, and we hope that we achieve the results we aspire to in supporting STEM education and raising awareness about environmental global issues.

Our team usually consists of STEM enthusiasts. Most of our team (founder, mentors & students) are experienced in international exchange programs, and they have international friendships while being active in peacebuilding.

To provide a better experience, and more inclusiveness, and to keep Team Iraq sustainable and renew members as a long-term planning, Science Camp makes Team Iraq consists of an “Air team” (the official and fits FIRST Global Challenge criteria & requirements), and a “Ground team” (under-age STEM enthusiasts, who plan to be next years’ “Air team”).

Team Iraq is usually divided functionally into mechanical designers, programmers, and media creators, to cover all the FIRST Global Challenge technical requirements, and to provide organized teamwork.

Science Camp provides a well-equipped infrastructure of workshops & tools for innovation, represents the best incubator to build, support, and launch Team Iraq, to represent the country with peacebuilding, cultural exchange, and global friendship responsibilities with the STEM theme to work together to solve the global issues as humans. Every year, Team Iraq students experience exciting social and cultural experiments through they learn more about other countries’ languages, cultures, and food, and carry the message of correcting the stereotype of Iraq, which is mainly related to the misleading media of war and conflict.

They show that they belong to the global youth with their deep history toward the global future based on innovation and big dreams.

Team Iraq contributed to the FIRST Global Challenge for raising awareness of global issues and understanding the FIRST Global event as a collaboration event rather than a competition.

Thank you to our supporters!

Team Media