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Originally Posted by Matt Leese
Unfortunately, so far Boeing in Seattle has been less than receptive to FIRST. Other areas of the country have fairly good support from Boeing (namely, St. Louis, Texas, and Florida) but Seattle has very little interest.
Matt
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Both Microsoft and Boeing are similar... at a Corp. level, they don't understand FIRST. However, there is a team (XBot) which is sponsored by MS Engineers. While Boeing does not sponsor a team, I have been successful in writing grants to their surplus store each year (Think very large warehouse with the motto "If Boeing bought it... we got it") So, for the last two years, I have written a grant and our team has received a couple hundred dollars to spend there on everything from drill bits, to rolls of zip ties, to large pieces of lexan...
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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod
Northrop Grumman has facilities/personnel in Seattle, Fort Lewis, Renton, & Keyport, WA that I know of. Mostly what's called Mission Systems (primarily Submarines in Seattle I believe), and Information Technology. Try to enlist some of them.
Chris is going to be thinking about a transfer request now...
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Good plan... Thanks... Fort Lewis is next door to us! Good idea!