Large Corporate Sponsorships?

[tjwolter]

I had an interesting experience yesterday. I am recently retired and have gone back to our local tech school to learn things that interest me and will enable me to, well, fake wisdom in the face of an increasingly smarter than me FIRST team. Machining, Solidworks, fun stuff. Well, the school had a Career Fair and I just wandered through. So many local businesses, so desparate for CNC and other skills. They all want to talk. They all have their HR and admin types there. Cards were exchanged. I ran into a number of useful contacts I did not remember that I had.

"Now, I'm not so much in the job market myself, but let me tell you about some really smart high schoolers I work with...."

I think it might be worthwhile for FIRST teams to band together and actually have their own booth at events like this.

T.Wolter