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Originally Posted by ImMoMo
Hello, so recently we have been revamping our efforts to become a better organized team, so one of the things I have noticed is that we need to represent or reward our sponsors a bit better, doing so would also help us attract many more community/local sponsors.
What does your team do to reward/attract sponsors? In other words what are your sponsor packages/benefits?
Our administrative mentor has made it clear that we are not to put branding on our t-shirts, so anything short of that would be helpful!
Thanks!
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We have a spread of rewards depending on level, and we set them knowing what this program costs. (We try to head off situations like my dear Aunt Kathy, who in our rookie preseason asked if my mom would pass along a donation--which she said yes. She then says "Alright, give him
ten dollars..." Which, while totally appreciated, doesn't make a lot of headway on starting a team!)
Everyone gets on the slide deck that runs in our pit area. (That runs on a Raspberry Pi and
Screenly--the TV has a USB port to power the Pi.)
$500 adds a sponsor plaque after the season. (
Here's last year's.)
$1,000 gets you on the T-shirt. (I've had other teams say "any amount gets you on the shirt", and it makes it very difficult to fit everyone at any legible level!)
$2,500 gets you on the robot, $5,000 gets you as big as USC and Bosch (our two headliners).
Based on your team's funding needs, you'll have different numbers--this has just worked for us the past couple years. If you have somewhere else you can bring value (Big display case in the school? T-shirt cannon at the football game? Annual team spaghetti supper? A pretty well-defined camp or outreach program?), you totally should work that in. I know we're working on ways we can do more things like that within our capabilities.