[akaria]

I have found that just going and presenting is usually not enough to get major amounts of funding. all of the sponsors that have given usa few thousand dollars have been from contacts that my team has known, people from work or church or even naighbors that have had contacts in big buissness have panned out well.
Presenting to a buissness is deffinitely a good thing to do though. Make sure that in the prsentation you tell them exactly why giving money to your team would not only be a good charity thing but also be profitable advertising. Show them how much students learn from the program, and how good it is. And also as was said before, keep talking to a minimum and show off the robot a lot. There are mostly engineers in the room so you want it to be interesting to them.