[Jessica Boucher]

Originally Posted by JVN

Pity.
As with many of my lofty ideas, this one is apparently infeasible.

Still, if anyone finds a way to make this happen I say, "Go for it!"

Thank you for your feedback.

JV

It's not infeasible. It's just a matter of finding the right sponsor.

The majority of the companies already sponsoring time in the parade are either consumer products or entertainment-driven. Sure, FIRST is a little light in the entertainment & consumer-products area, but we've got a lot of large sponsors that could qualify: Kimberly Clark, J & J, Mattel Inc (through Fisher-Price), TI, Microsoft, Xerox...it would be a matter of working those contacts on a very high level.

But that's not really anything we can really control. So, as I said, cool idea, and rather difficult to implement without major corporate sponsorship and a lot of variables answered, but not totally off-base.