How do your teams recognize your sponsors?

[BandChick]

For 1089, we do the following:

Every sponsor that donates a few hundred dollars gets a spot on our website, our robot, our newsletter, any press announcements, our team t-shirts & polos and at all our community events. The 3 most-influential sponsors for our program get bigger logos, and they scale down until we get to our smallest sponsor. Now, this dosen't just mean money - we have sponsors that donate a LOT of time, and they have big names.

In 2005, our team created a banner for our major corporate sponsor, Bristol-Myers Squibb. But, we didn't just make it about our team and them, we included the 6 other teams that BMS helps fund. We gave one to every BMS team, one to our sponsor, and printed up a large one to hang in the stands area of the arena.

We also invite our major sponsors to be our event VIPs, giving them access to the VIP area of the NJ Regional, and a chance to talk to us about our team and our robot in our pits.

Our sponsors also tend to make a presentation of our check either in front of our Board of Education or just at a team meeting. This year we took a photo with a subsitute teacher who found us $750 from our local VFW. It's simply our advisor getting the check from her, and the entire team in the background. Likewise, when our BMS representative gives us that large cardboard check, we always have students and mentors on hand for photographs.