[MrTechCenter]

I've actually thought about this exact same thing. And there's a few issues that come to mind:

-It will be difficult for teams in other countries to travel to the U.S. to compete.
-You will need many teams in one particular country to have a regional there, and even if you do have enough teams, I'm not so sure that FIRST would be too keen on having another international regional (currently, the only international regional is the Israel regional, but there has been a regional in Brazil in the past).


Nevertheless, I did some research into this. I started by contacting the Department of Education in whatever country I thought would have interest in having FIRST teams. Many of these told me to contact schools in the country directly. Now, there's TONS of schools. So I started by looking for academies that specialized in STEM-related field (such as school's that have "Engineering" in their title). This is actually very difficult and very tricky. You'd have to find schools and/or organizations that are interested just before or during the FRC season, so that they and FIRST will be ready to join the program immediately following the end of the FRC season.


I have been very interested in this sort of thing for a long time. I'm not sure if FIRST is ready to be on an international scale just yet, but I'd be willing to help if FIRST and the community was willing to try. If we're serious about this, we should start some sort of joint/group project or committee.