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Originally Posted by Mark Pierce
Looks Great. I like the innovative and extreme effort you put into this fundraising effort.
If you get the sponsorship though, please try to avoid logo confusion with the team who's logo was inspired by a Mountain Dew Box: the RoboDAWGS of Grandville and Byron Center, Michigan. There have been a few discussions over the years about whether they should ask for sponsorship from the Pepsi people, but nothing ever came from it. |
Our family has already been good friends with the Dew Crew of the Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge races for many years now. Many of my friends can attest to the amount of free Mountain Dew stuff that is given to us that I share with everyone. Building the Dewbot isn't a conventional way of recruiting sponsors, but we believe it will be extremely successful for our team.
We already have several members of the Dew Crew interested in attending several of the offseason FRC competitions in New England, just because of the Dewbot. Before the event, we emailed several of the Dew Crew members who we are good friends with telling them that we would be bring up "a robot" to the MDVC Finals. Those emails were forwarded a lot around Pepsi Marketing apparently, as there was an executive from PepsiCo that flew out from Colorado just to see our robot, of which he was extremely impressed.
Also, I don't think there would be any logo confusion if we did get the sponsorship, as the Dewbot is a public relations robot and not our FRC robot. We'll still keep our team name of
Gus.
I feel that the only friends I have ever had are people I know through FIRST. Being on a team gave me the sense of belonging that I thought I didn't even need. FIRST has given me a great life that I never thought I would have. - Alaina [more] 
02-04-2007, 22:09
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