We are Team Iraq, the national representation of the Iraqi nation in the 2024 FIRST Global Challenge and the past seven years. Team Iraq is one of the projects of the Science Camp. (Science Camp is the first physical Makerspace/Fab Lab in Iraq (according to the MIT definition of innovative hubs), part of the global maker movement and global innovation gathering (gig e.v), registered in Iraq as an NGO and educational robot factory.

Science Camp is working in Iraq to support STEM education and technology-dependent entrepreneurship, working with our international friends on mindset change and a cultural shift of youth towards entrepreneurship, innovation, digital transformation, and countering Climate Change with innovative solutions. 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 local community.

Our team consists of students from different schools in Basra City. They meet in the Science Camp 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.

Our team members (students & mentors) work in the educational robot’s production line in Science Camp and lead a pioneering role in the STEM education gamification as they design, manufacture, and coach local school students on our product ERA-5 educational robot kit. With the visual programming revolution, STEM education equity becomes achievable.

This is our organization’s eighth 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 long-term planning, Science Camp makes Team Iraq consist 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 and inclusiveness.

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 which they learn more about other countries’ languages, cultures, and food, and carry the message of correcting the media 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 to raise awareness of global issues and understand the FIRST Global event as a collaboration event rather than a competition.

Thank you to our supporters!

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