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Are there sponsors from whom you would never accept support? Or from which FIRST should never accept support?
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I think as long as they fill in one of the following pre-req of 'Products legal for minors to be involved with' and are willing to sponsor, they should be welcomed by teams and FIRST.
Products legal for minors to be involved with encompasses every team's current sponsors, i.e. beverage companies, pharmecudicals, local stores, banks, engineering companies, etc, and also leave out things such as tobacco and alcohal.
I don't believe a high-school program should be getting funding from something such as a cigarette company, even if it's financially only. The message just isn't right and there is no way to construe it as being a good thing. There is more to a sponsor than just their money, a relationship is formed between the students and sponsors and it's not good for students to have the thought that 'these people (tobacco, alcohal, gun shops) are good people and it's good that they sell what they do because that in turn gets us money'
Any company with a product that either negatively effects people or is illegal to be used/possessed/handled/etc. by high schoolers should not be a sponsor.