Founding sponsors

These companies backed the club before it had a single finished robot.

Our goal is simple and it does not change much year to year: every member who wants to build a robot gets to build one, and the club puts on its own competition at the end of the year.

For a club our size that runs to about $1,500 a year.

The club's money is held by Associated Students of Sonoma State University, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 94-2763507. Gifts to the club are deductible as charitable contributions.

If you are a business receiving recognition in return, your accountant may treat it as an ordinary business expense rather than a charitable gift. Either way we will send you a receipt.

Any material or service donation counts at its monetary value, and lands in the same tier a cheque of that size would.

The things we actually use: printing filament, polycarbonate and plastic sheet offcuts, laser or waterjet time, small gearmotors, and hand tools. If you have any of it sitting unused, that is worth more to us than it is to you.

If we raise more than a season needs, it does not sit in an account doing nothing. It goes to spare parts, to more robots so more members can build one of their own, and to the club's account for whoever runs this after we graduate.

One thing worth saying plainly: we are new. The club started in 2026 and December will be its first event. Four companies backed us before we had a single finished robot, and they sit at the top of this page permanently. There is still room up there, and that is the one thing a first-year club can offer that an established one cannot.

Sponsorship goes through the club president directly. Tell us what you have and we will tell you honestly whether we can use it.