What do Sponsors Get?

[Billfred]

I'm not entirely sure how it'll turn out--I essentially developed the whole sponsorship thing from scratch for this season. Your mileage can and will vary.

In retrospect, I do wish there was a $1,000 level. However, the way I see it, ten people giving ten bucks each still buys a lot of PVC pipe/pizza for meetings/aspirin for after the meetings.

[Bcahn836]

I am not sure what $ amount gets what level on our team, but at our end of the year awards we give out plaques and team shirts to our sponsors, and to our top sponsor we give them one of the awards that we win or hope to win.

[Steve Yasick]

In Zeeland here is how it works:

Some sponsors give money, some give time and some give both. Most will not directly benefit from being our sponsor with more sales. What all are looking for is recognition in our community. We put all sponsors on the robot. If our design works we will display the big money people more predominantly.

What we can "give" our sponsors (and really what they want besides recognition) is quality kids. We make sure our big sponsors know the kids who are going to schools like Kettering and GVSU school of Engineering. It took a few years, but now our sponsors and kids know to look to each other for jobs or internships.

I guess that is what sponsors get, some recognition and some good kids.

[Ian Curtis]

All of our corporate sponsors get their name on the robot. I don't remember who we put on the shirt but I know the big logo was our sponsoring Vocactional School simply becuase you can't put a dollar amount on what they give us. Space, machines, training, amoung other things. You rock MCST!