The Sponsors
The Scale of What Needs to be Done in Preparing for the FIRST Robotics is Huge. Taking part in a FIRST Robotics competition provides students with life-changing experience. As you can imagine, any effort that provides such experience is a major undertaking. Teams need a great number of resources from expert help and mentoring to monetary benefits. Most Robotics Teams are affiliated with a high school and have the fund-raising arm of the high school available for their expenses.
NASA and the Girl Scouts are Our Founding Sponsors
We, The Space Cookies are a NASA (www.nasa.gov) and Girl Scouts (www.girlscouts.org) sponsored team. NASA provides us with lab space, NASA interns as mentors with experience of FIRST robotics, and has also been very generous with providing us funds for registration at the regional and the national competition and also some funds toward travel and robot-related expenses.
The Girl Scouts organization helps us with fund-raising, media connection and community outreach. Many local girl-scout troops have donated their own funds for our own use.
Other Generous Sponsors
We are also grateful to the following sponsors for providing us generously with funds and resources:
2008
Seagate (www.seagate.com)
Stellar Solutions (www.stellarsolutions.com)
Santa Clara University, School of Engineering (www.scu.edu/engineering/)
BAE Systems (www.baesystems.com)
2007
FAA Liaison Office (www.faa.gov)
Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)
Stellar Solutions
(www.stellarsolutions.com)
2006
Advantest America (www.advantest.com)
Bessemer Venture Partners (www.bvp.com)
FAA Liaison Office (www.faa.gov)
Fusion Planning Innovation
Hayes Manufacturing Services, Inc.(www.hayescouplings.com)
Harbor High School, Santa Cruz (www.harborhs.santacruz.k12.ca.us)
Santa Clara University, School of Engineering (www.scu.edu/engineering/)
T.Y. Custom Designs Inc.(www.tycustomdesign.com)
Tritrack (www.tritrack.net)
