Automotive Company Sponsored Winners

[Jherbie53]

First off this is my 100 post, go me. Anyhoo, there are teams that have big sponsors, like GM, Delphi, and Ford. You don't need a big sponsor to win. Every year that I've been apart of team 85, we've had at least 6-7 sponsors. Granted some of them were Herman Miller, Gentex, and ITW Drawform, all of them are big companies in the area. I think that the reason we have won awards in the past is that we have the students involved with the robot from start to finish. I'm not saying that all the other teams don't do this, But we want the students to do as much of the work as they can. I've been told a couple of times, while being handed a tool, "here you do this." or "here you put this together."

We have done very well with not only our robots, but also our presentations to the judges in the pits.

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Reason alot of teams win, is that they are REALLY good at talking. Judges arn't going to say you should win if you can't tell them how good your robot is, even if it's the greatest thing ever. Presentation is every bit as important as actual acheivment when campaigning (and that's exactly what it is) for an award.

Thats how the awards are. Your robot can be the best on the field, but if the students can't tell the judges how it works, then you might be passed on some awards.

Anyhoo, the co-winky-dink that there are teams with a major automotive company as a sponsor that wins is cool. Now lets try and get the teams that hardly make it through the season and get them into the mix of winning championships and being counted like the major teams.