Attention L.A. Area Teams! Unique Cooler Master Opportunity

[CMBrandon]

Originally Posted by roboruler

It is so good that you are trying to gain information through surveys and competitions. Your special product sales show that you are wanting to help teams, but in my opinion your posts seem to be becoming more like advertising for Cooler Master Products than anything.

I'm in marketing, we talk about the products. A lot of what I learn on here goes right back into changing the way we do things. If we didn't care what you think, we wouldn't ask. We currently sponsor 5 teams, 4 in the U.S. and 1 in Europe, everything we have given them has been free of charge.

This is our first year with robotics and I think if you ask anyone on our teams they will tell you that we are probably their most involved sponsor. We visit the schools, go to the competitions, know most of the students by name, etc. Keep in mind, we never asked a single one of them to buy anything from us. Actually, we have team 4481 Team Rembrandts at our Computex booth in Taipei as we speak. We flew them and their robot out to showcase. We also commissioned a robot from team 599 Robodox that is in the booth as well. At the L.A. Regional we gave out close to $3000 in product, free. Do we sell stuff to the robotics teams, yes, but we invest about 20x that amount back into the programs.