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Re: Who are your sponsors?
If it helps, you should also differentiate between a "sponsor" and a "patron". The act of sponsorship implies much more of an ownership and active participation in the team, whereas a patron may be more passive and only doing a financila contribution.
So, most teams have a "sponsor" that supplies not only funding, but also supplies the mentors. Yes, you can and should get lots of "patrons" to provide donations for some sort of recognition (patron book listing, name on your shirt/robot, etc)
Our team, 1511 Rolling Thunder is "sponsored" by Harris Corporation's RF Communications Division in Rochester, NY. But we also have many "patrons" that provide funding and all of that was student-driven as part of the annual team participation requirements.
yes, every parent has connections into one or more local businesses that is a ripe pool of patron possibilities....
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