Fun Wild Idea: Corporate Sponsors Build & Compete!

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by Doc Wu

How about including a celebrity team? I'd like to see what Will-i-am and the Black Eyed Peas come up with. Or a team from Mythbusters...

I like that idea - Big Bang Theory vs Mythbusters!

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

I like that idea - Big Bang Theory vs Mythbusters!

I don't think that would be a very fair competition.

[Cory]

There was a local soap box derby type race held up until 2001 here in the Bay Area as a fundraiser for a nonprofit that featured something similar. They had a high school division and a corporate division. Most of the local FRC teams competed in it. Compaq, Hitachi, HP, KPCB, Sun, and pretty much every other influential tech/VC company in Silicon Valley participated.

The lengths that the corporate teams went to to outdo each other were pretty ridiculous. They had teams of engineers working on them full time, some did wind tunnel testing, one had 2 members of the US Olympic bobsled team as their pushers at the beginning. I can't even imagine how much money they spent each year.

[Jon Stratis]

This is basically every mentors dream job... I'd love to take a few months off my regular job to be able to actually design and build a robot of my own

[Chief Hedgehog]

I would be willing to throw down the gauntlet to my sponsors.

But I think 6 weeks is too generous. I think a time frame of around 1 week would be suffice...