Best Practices for finding manufacturing support.

[Ben Martin]

We have had two such sponsors provide such services -- Mike Trapp of Waterjet Cutting of Indiana and Cassini Manufacturing. Mike Trapp is located in Indianapolis, and he provides waterjet cutting services to many local teams there on weekends. Cassini is a local resource for our team, and they provide cutting services for ourselves and team 1646. We provide the materials.

The Waterjet Cutting of Indiana connection was established through college mentors who used those waterjet resources in high school. The Cassini connection was established through 1646.

Each sponsor gets referenced in our sponsor lists and their logos are put on the robot. Whenever we cut parts, we also take students to the facilities to see their manufacturing processes.