Sponsors

Founding sponsors

Your name on this page, your logo on the December showcase, and your logo on the robots. We are looking for the businesses and people who put this club on the floor for the first time.

What a season costs

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.

$1,000Robots, so every member who wants one has a machine of their own.
$200Spares and replacement parts. Things break. That is the sport.
$150Shared gear: transmitters, chargers, battery safety equipment.
$150Printing filament and consumables across the year.

What a yes buys

For businesses

$250Supporter. Your name on this page.
$500Bronze. Above, plus your logo on the showcase banner.
$1,000Silver. Above, plus your logo on every robot the club builds.
$2,500Founding Partner. Above, plus the December showcase carries your name.
OtherName your own figure. In-kind counts at what it is worth.

For individuals

$10Half a spool of filament.
$25A spool, and change toward the next one.
$50A set of drive motors and wheels.
$100Most of a robot. Your name goes on this page.
$250A robot, its spares, and the parts it breaks first.
OtherName your own figure.

Parts count as much as money

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.

Where extra money goes

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, and we have no sponsors yet. The club started in 2026 and December will be its first event. Whoever comes in first is going to stay on this page permanently, which is the one thing a first-year club can offer that an established one cannot.

Talk to a person

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

Stone Stephenson

President, SSU Combat Robotics

stephensos@sonoma.edu