FIRST Team in Egypt?

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

I think i saw reports of an African team last year, not sure where exactly from...

There have been two groups from Africa associated with FRC teams.

Team 1188 in Royal Oak and then later Team 1025 in Ferndale have had a 4-year relationship with a group from South Africa. They joined as part of 1188 and 1025. This past year they built a robot in SA, but have not competed independently. They visited Michigan and then accompanied the teams to Atlanta. Due to the high cost of travel, they will now be visiting only every other year.

Another group in Ghana was formed in association with Miss Daisy, and I'm sorry if I'm not remembering this correctly. They may have even registered as an independent team. They were at Drexel in 2006.

[Elgin Clock]

Andrew, while there may not be any FRC teams in Egypt, I'm willing to bet there is at least one FLL team in Egypt since FLL is more internationally known & easier for teams to compete in.
Maybe hooking up with one of them to give them some motivation about engineering would be a task you would like to take on?

Just a thought.
Let us know how you make out, even if you are the sole person in that country watching the kickoff!

-Elgin

[burkey_turkey]

according to [ http://www.usfirst.org/whatsgoingon.aspx ] there is nothing going on in Egypt at all. A bit of googling found that there is an FLL tournament in Alexandria [ http://www.bibalex.org/psc/ALEXPLora...s83X5A%3D% 3D ] but this would end two days before i arrive, and i won't be in Alexandria. I couldn't find anything in Cairo where i'll be during FRC kickoff.

Also, its great to hear that FIRST can bring together people of such different cultures with such a complicated history of conflict. Maybe the gracious professionalism in the teams could eventually spread to their countries politics. After all, FIRST is about a lot more than robots.