ITKAN brought its story to a global audience at the GEM Summit in Doha, Qatar — a gathering of more than 1,000 innovators from over 120 countries. The team ran hands-on workshops at its booth and presented from the main stage, introducing FIRST robotics to educators and leaders from around the world.
The Summit also produced a partnership with the Qatar Foundation aimed at expanding STEM and FIRST programming across the Middle East, India, and Bangladesh — a structured path to seed the model in regions where access to competitive robotics is still scarce.
Doha was a statement of scale: the same grassroots playbook that started in a single community room is now being shared, in person, with the people who can carry it across continents.