Who are your sponsors?

[sanddrag]

A while back we had Boeing as a sponsor.

Here are our current sponsors:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (engineer support)
Tru Cut (machine shop)
The Kauffman Family (major financial contribution, mentor, expert in lasercutting and sheetmetal fabrication)
Arrow Metal Stamping
Gordon Woods Welding Supply
Hardcore Racing (they make really awesome RC car parts and did lasercutting and machining for us)
Glendale Community College (sponsor since 2002, welding and machining)
HEC
Clark Magnet High School (main financial contributor and provider of workspace)

[Alex Burman]

Our main sponsor Johnson and Johnson Consumer and Personal Products

our current other sponsors are
Summit Associates
Don Wells & Rancocas Valley Toolmakers
MKM Engineering
Jtec Systems Inc.
Advanced Micro Systems
Sissco
Raritan Valley Disposal Service
Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation
Zansitis Painting
State Tool & Gear

with some other minor sponsor

[Drew Hopman]

Large Sponsors:
Lockeed Martian Space Opps (5 years and growing stronger)
United Space Alliance (3 years)
ASRC Aerospace (1st year)

Small Sponsors:
Ace Hardware
Olsen Indurstrail Sales
Merritt Island High School
a handfull of doctoral supply companies

Past sponsors:
NASA
JE (Jacobs Sverdrup)
Publix
Lynda Bradley saved our team in 2004!!!! Seeing a come back in the 2007 year!

[Kyle Love]

Delphi
Ivy Tech Community College

Along with the school and career center ofcourse.

[omutton]

We have a large variety of sponsors; mainly General Motors but here are a few others:

Fast Eddie Racewear (Uniforms)
Local dentist
local doctor
CAW Local 222 (Union representing GM employees)

A lot of our sponsors were obtained through networking. Talk to the parents of students and give the students your packages to give to their parents. That is how we obtained many small but helpful sponsors!

[Nita]

The List of Team 1190's Sponsors

[Nate Laverdure]

Team 612 is sponsored by:

Mitretek Systems
Northop Grumman
SAIC
Integrity Applications, Inc.
Curry's Auto Service
OEC Engineering

[Don Wright]

Here's a great booklet that Gail Alpert, our team leader and a huge help for Detroit area teams and regionals for funding, put together... It's really a great piece to help get sponsorship...

http://www.freebmw.net/don/FIRST/TeamBooklet/

Obviously you would need to modify it to suit your team, but it should be a good start...

[rees2001]

Originally Posted by Jill1022

Since 1022 lost our sponsors this year, I'm putting together a packet to give companies to try to get them to sponsor us for next year.

One of the pages of the packet was going to give examples of companies that sponsor teams. Perhaps if a company like a doctor's office sees that other doctors offices sponsor teams, they'd be more likely to sponsor us.

I'm especially intersted in colleges, doctors offices, hospitals, etc. But please list any sponsors you have.

It'd help a lot.

We went through the same thing a few years back. We survived for a couple of years with just local companies. A couple hundred here, $1500 there adds up pretty quick. You might also want to talk with school officials, they may be able to help you find grants to get you by. Let me tell you its easier to replace a $1000 sponsor rather than a $30,000 sponsor.
We have had, grant money, tool & die shops, pizza shops, a welding company, a general contractor, local market, all sorts of places. Don't be afraid to go to anyone! What is the worst they can say, no?

[Mark Pierce]

Built on Brains is blessed to have a long list of sponsors including these primary ones:

Gentex Corp. (where I work) - Manufacturer of automotive mirrors and fire protection devices
Herman Miller Foundation - Foundation associated with large office furniture manufacturer
ITW Drawform - Precision deep drawn and metal stamping
Mead Johnson Nutritionals - Manufacturer of baby formula
Midway Machine Technologies - Maker of Conveyor systems
Plascore - Manufacturer of honeycomb panels
Town and Country Group - Commercial controls, electrical, and telecommunications contractor
Transmatic Manufacturing - Precision deep drawn stampings and assemblies

We also get support for others like Holland Motor Freight, Zeeland Lumber and Hardware, West Michigan Uniform, the local supermarket, and small machine shops. In the 2000 season when Drawform stopped providing full support for the team we got help from many small donors and even our neighboring team's sponsor.

Having a wide base of sponsors and mentors from many of these companies is one of our greatest assets.

Work through parents, the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, engineering societies, the school board, anyone you can find contacts with. More and more teams seem to be getting grants from foundations also. Get your presentation materials ready and make arrangements to show the robot to groups. Have video and pictures to show at meetings with individual potential sponsors.

[AcesPease]

Here is a list of our past patrons (not all of them contributed this year). We received between $30 and $1000 from these people. We also receive services from a machine shop and are sponsored by UTC Hamilton Sundstrand and UTC Pratt and Whitney.



Our Patrons
A-1 Chrome & Powder Coating
A Supreme Auto Upholstery
ASNT CT Valley Section
Bardaglio, Hart & Shuman, CPAs
Charles Carilo Insurance
Colonial Auto Sales
Crawford Door Sales Company, INC
Edward Loiseau
Fleming Transportation
Hamilton Sundstrand Federal Credit Union
HARP Mechanical, LLC
Headquarters Hair Salon
Highland Park Market
International Association of Mechanical Engineers
Merrigan & Lefebvre Realty, Inc.
Nicholas Hair
Phil's Automotive
Sunfire Golden Retrievers
The Driving Image
The First National Bank of Suffield
Three Way Communications
Wells Eurobodies
Windsor Locks Teacher Association
Vallid Labs
Century 21
Twin Brooks Restoration
Susaye Construction
Health Direct
Suffield Fire Dept

[xzvrw2]

we have one

GM Powertrain

[DHarris]

Wow, you guys have a whole lot of sponsors. My team had only 3:

Ford
NASA
UPS

And Sanderson Industries was about to help us fabricate a body for our launcher, but because they didn't get it done and waited too late to inform us of that, we had to scrap the idea for a shooter.

[Bemis]

You guys just wait till I get my hands on our list. 50+ small sponsors on it.

[the_short1]

http://instigators1596.com/sponsors.html all the information youd want