New Team Different Country

[Nawaid Ladak]

i think the people who your going to have to ask are the people who started teams in different countries (Blizzard in 97 or 98 in canada) and 383 would be good places

you might also want to check out the Presidents Circle on You tube and start looking into sponsors

another great source would be team 433. the Fire birds, their an all girls team from PA who started a team in Africa, though they weren't able to get the funding they needed, i think that team number was 1872

[Bharat Nain]

I would also suggest contacting FIRST and asking for their advice and support. I think they like to be involved in starting teams in other countries.

[GaryVoshol]

Team 1025 has taken an alternative path. We became acquainted with some students in South Africa (RSA) several years ago, through mentors' common interest in LEGO Early Robotics for young elementary ages. Since it would be incredibly difficult and expensive to create a team in RSA, students there are members of 1025. We communicate via email and Skype. They handle some tasks there, while we build the competition robot here. This season they built a practice robot there with some old parts that were sent to them. 7 team members came to Michigan last week, and have been participating in cultural exchange in our schools and learning more about robots from a 2-year-old robot we had on hand. We will travel together to Atlanta this week. FIRST has a large LEGO League presence in RSA, but currently a FRC program would not be sustainable. Until that becomes possible, we will continue to pursue the intercontinental teamwork path.

[Dancin103]

If you want him to show his school or community a website of a FIRST team that is in German, he can use ours, there is a button that translates the whole thing into German. (one of our largest sponsors is based out of Germany) Maybe this could help. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

www.cybersonics.org

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

I would also suggest contacting FIRST and asking for their advice and support. I think they like to be involved in starting teams in other countries.

Yeah I definitely agree. Get FIRST involved a little and don't be afraid because they'll still let you keep it as your own project, they won't try to take over or anything.

edit: At least you won't have to worry about sponsorship: BMW, Benz, and many more...all the good stuff is in Germany