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Recruit the best and brightest STEM students for your organization
HANDS ON EXCELLENCE
Our teams focus learning from the best, modelling gracious professionalism, and producing results.
92% of students on our teams pursue a career in the STEM field upon graduation, and the rest typically go into a business field relating to STEM.
HANDS ON LEARNING
STEM SKILLS:
Engineering concepts
Programming
CAD
Project Management
Strategy
Fabrication techniques
Operating manufacturing equipment, such as CNC, powder coating, lathe, 3D printers
How to use machine shop tools
BUSINESS AND LIFE SKILLS:
Leadership
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Negotiation
Marketing
Public Relations
Social Media
Adapting in real time to new and unexpected circumstances and parameters
Imagine supporting students that learn these skills in high school, while they are looking future opportunities to have a career in STEM.
By providing them resources and allowing them to see how your organization works in person, you have a growing pool of future college interns and new hires at your disposal before they even graduate from Vandegrift.
HANDS ON KNOWLEDGE
Our students are expected to not only learn and apply these concepts, and work together to produce results, but be able to speak about the concept and how they produced those results with other experts in the field. Watch this video to see our pit team explain this year's robot.
SUPPORT OUR PROGRAM
Your charitable donations and matching donations from your employees to our 503(c) booster club will fund parts, equipment, materials, as well as host competitions to allow students to build robots.
Your willingness to open your doors to allow our students to observe how STEM is applied in your workplace and see real live examples of engineering, programming, CAD, Project Management and other related concepts is priceless experience they will never forget.
Your in-person or remote meetings at our campus to share your extensive knowledge and your guidance to our students will bring our mentoring and community involvement to a whole new level.
Diamond Level
$10,000
10" wide logo on robot
up to 3"x5" logo on team shirt
Listed as a sponsor of the competitions we host at Vandegrift
listed on our web site with donors
Attend our sponsorship event where you can drive a robot and meet the students in person
Platinum Level
$5,000
6" wide logo on robot
up to 2"x3" logo on team shirt
listed on our web site with donors
Attend our sponsorship event where you can drive a robot and meet the students in person
Gold Level
$2,500
3" wide logo on robot
up to 1"x 2" logo on team shirt
listed on our web site with donors
Attend our sponsorship event where you can drive the robot and meet the students in person
Silver Level
$1,000
3" wide logo on robot
name on team shirt
listed on our web site with donors
Attend our sponsorship event where you can drive the robot and meet the students in person