For the entirety of the past year, as the teenage roboticists of Team Palestine have been working on their latest project, their homeland has been engulfed in Israel's war with Hamas. Khalil DarOmar and Sara Saleh, a husband-and-wife duo from Ramallah in the West Bank, founded the Palestinian FIRST team in 2018. Sara Saleh, Team Palestine cofounder: When we founded the team, we had zero experience. Khalil DarOmar, Team Palestine cofounder: I saw the FIRST Global Challenge, and I said, “Why are we not in this? Shipment restrictions due to Israeli military control over Palestine prevented Team Palestine from receiving their FIRST Challenge robotics kit in advance for the first several years they participated, forcing them to find workarounds.