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Originally Posted by _GP_
But its not necessarily Kamen himself sponsoring a team if he allows the resources of his company to be used by a team.
And to make a counter point, Dave Lavery is deeply involved in the making of this years game, and he still participates on a team (I believe)
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allowing the resources of your company to be used by a team IS sponsoring a team - those resouces would otherwise be used for business purposes - everytime a machine tool touches metal its costing the owner money - besides Dean is not going to hand the keys to Deka to a bunch of students and let them have free access to the shop, so employees will need to be present, machine operators, supervision.... <= this is sponsorship
Dave works for Nasa or JPL - he doenst OWN JPL.
another way to look at this is that Dean has founded this program, so in a sense he sponsored all the teams at a different level, making the FIRST organization possible, without which there would be no teams at all.