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In terms of keeping sponsors, I think its good to keep good relations with them. Here are some of the things are team has done and I'm pretty sure all our sponsors this year are planning on helping out next year.

*Get email addresses and mailing addresses of your company presidents or relations. We send them updates of what are team is up to, accomplishments, and what we need. Usually every few months and then I would send out a weekly update during building season. This allows them to see where their money is going and how much we appreciate it.
*Get your sponsors involved. We invite all our sponsors to the competitions and they love coming to see us compete. We also invited them to our building sessions in the evenings to see our committment outside of the classroom.
*Show your appreciation. We presented each company with a few team tshirts which they all loved. We also invited them to the team dinner and set the last part of it apart for thank yous where we gave them these team collages/plaques saying thanks. Our cake at our dinner even had the names of all the sponsors on it.
*Visit the companies. Yesterday a few teammates and I visited a company to demonstrate the robot to all their workers. We explained the FIRST program, described the game and our achievements this year, and told them how much we learned. They were so impressed to see that would built the whole thing in 6 weeks when their engineering projects take months. We even got a tour and sometimes they would give us food and company products.

These tips have definately taught us a lot of the business world and its not everyday that you see teenagers chatting with presidents of million dollar companies. Through this, a few of my teammates even got internships and jobs at these engineering companies.
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