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Our Sponsors
2024-25
Detroit Cristo Rey
is a private, Catholic high school that provides excellent college-preparatory Catholic high school education in the Cristo Rey Model of “The School That Works” to students from economically disadvantaged families in Detroit. They provide meeting space and academic support.
Ideal Group
is a manufacturing company based in Southwest Detroit that
focuses on its surrounding community. They strive to innovate and create to keep our customers happy, which will help Ideal grow and thrive even more moving forward.
General Motors
is a leading Detroit-based international corporation specializing in automotive technology, design, and manufacturing.
Their community outreach is embedded in support of STEM education by sponsoring local FIRST robotics programs within the Metro Detroit community.
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Intuitive Foundation
Intuitive has inspired hundreds of students to engage in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) activities. In addition, Intuitive Surgical employees have volunteered as mentors and coaches for teams that compete in FIRST Robotics Competition, which combines the excitement of sports with the rigors of science and technology. In 2019, the Intuitive Foundation expanded its reach to sponsoring teams around the world.
3M
3M is committed to fostering innovation and inspiring the next generation of STEM leaders and our longstanding partnership with FIRST exemplifies this commitment. By providing financial support, product donations, and volunteer mentorship, 3M aims to make STEM education accessible to all students, regardless of their background.
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Gene Haas
Gene Haas supports the local community's needs through grants to local charities such as the Boys and Girls Clubs, Food Share, Rescue Mission, and others. Seeing a growing need for skilled manufacturing employees industry-wide, the Foundation expanded its mission to include support for manufacturing training programs throughout North America and beyond.
Comcast
has supported FIRST for many years through sponsorship and mentorship of teams across the United States.
Laborers Local 1079
exists to give its members a voice in the workplace and the larger community. Our goals are to protect and improve the wages, benefits, and standard of living of our members and their families, to ensure a safe and healthy workplace, to affirm the dignity and value of our members and the work they perform, and to create a more just and secure workplace and society.
DTE Energy
is a Detroit-based diversified energy company involved in developing and
managing energy-related businesses and services. Their community outreach is embedded in support of STEM
education by sponsoring local FIRST robotics programs within the Metro Detroit community.
Michigan Department of Education
provides competitive grants to districts that offer pupils in grades 7-12 expanded opportunities to improve mathematics, science, and technology skills by participating in events hosted by a science and technology development a program known as FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics.
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Kettering GMI Alumni
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unites and furthers the interests of alums by
fostering and assisting in the realization of the ideals of the university to stimulate and encourage loyalty towards the institution, providing financial assistance for educational programs, serving as a sounding board for university leadership, and by supporting appropriate university-sponsored alum activities.
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Toyota
Toyota is committed to improving student’s education by supporting programs that not only offer training and technology but include a mentoring component as well