i think the most interesting ideas here is too accept the money, but ask them if they can advertise one of their subsidiary companies (explain the sensitivity of the situation)....for example I would talk to Budweiser, but ask if it would be alright to promote, lets say, Busch Gardens....
Anheuser-Busch Companies:
Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
Busch Media Group, Inc.
St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company
Precision Printing & Packaging, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch International, Inc.
Metal Container Corporation
Busch Entertainment Corporation
Busch Agricultural Resources, Inc.
Manufacturers Railway Company
Anheuser-Busch Recycling Company
Busch Properties, Inc.
Eagle Packaging, Inc.
Longhorn Glass Corporation
I would then point everyone to
http://www.coorstek.com/ and then ask yourself if they aren't interested in engineering....i know these companies are
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Originally Posted by magnasmific
Is this the image we want our students to have? It definitely isn't what I want for my kids. There are plenty of other outlets for sponsorship. Keep looking, and avoid conflict with other teams. I know I can't be the only one who feels like this.
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I may share the opinion, but I am not sure. Are these companies investing in the teams purely to advertise to students, or are they doing this because they have a vested interested in people that engineer? I agree if they are sinking their money into the program to advertise to students at a young age, but I disagree if they are trying to make a pointed effort to inspire the youth. If their aim is to inspire I believe they will make concessions and attempt to do the right thing (which from what I am hearing has been done in the past). I would like the image very much of a college educated engineer that is able to make a living in whatever market it may be (even if it involves the technology being used to make alcohol). Did you know biochemists genetically engineer the perfect blue agave which a huge part in the process of making tequila. All the bottling plants....industrial engineering if I ever saw it....
Are you against the military/military contractors donating too because they employ engineers to design weapons of all types? Well then I would suggest you take that up with Raytheon and Honeywell (and all the other military contractors that donate to FIRST).....those things are designed to kill people yet you have no problem with that.....strange
(and yes I know they design things to save people's lives as well)