Welcome to Central Florida! (and CD)
The Orange County area has a bunch of great FIRST teams and is a very supportive community.
The FIRST in Florida website (
https://sites.google.com/site/firstinstem/) is a useful resource you might want to look through and you should definitely contact Terri Willingham, the Central Florida FRC coordinator, (her info is on the site) and she should be able to help you out in the beginning stages.
Also there are a number of teams in the area who i'm sure would be happy to help. 945, 665, 1649 and 1902 are all in the immediate area.
Some off-seasons coming up are:
Panther Prowl: Sept 28th at FIT in Melbourne (
http://floridatech.orgsync.com/org/firstatfit)
RoboCon: Oct 26-27 at the University of Tampa (
http://robocontampabay.com/)
Feel free to PM me if you need more local information or assistance.