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Free for about 120 Bay Area high schoolers means somebody else pays for the room, the food, the insurance and the laptops. Right now that is nobody, and this is the first one — no track record, no past photos, no numbers to show you.

Folding tables stacked against a bare wall, plain cardboard boxes on the floor, a coil of orange extension cable on top.

The tiers

$500

Friend

Feeds roughly eleven students for the whole day.

  • Logo on the site and the printed materials
  • Thanked by name at the opening and the closing
  • The written report after the event
  • Send up to 2 mentors

$1,500

Supporter

Covers dinner for the entire room.

  • Everything in Friend, up to 3 mentors
  • Your product or credits given to every student
  • Send a judge for Demo Hour
  • Credited on what students take home

$3,000

Partner

Four available

Underwrites the venue, or the whole food programme.

  • Everything in Supporter, up to 5 mentors
  • Name one of four prize categories
  • First refusal on the lunch talk after Founding Partner
  • Logo on the shirt

$7,500

Founding Partner

Two available

Underwrites the day.

  • Everything in Partner, up to 6 mentors, largest logo
  • First refusal on the lunch talk and on a prize category
  • Input on what the whole room builds in Block 02

$15,000

Title Partner

One available

Underwrites the event outright.

  • Everything in Founding Partner, up to 8 mentors, first position everywhere
  • Named in the event title treatment
  • The lunch talk, if you want it
  • Named on the prize fund students take away

No booths, no banners, no recruiting, and we never hand over the attendee list. The peer-voted award is not for sale at any tier. Named slots go in tier order — if one is committed when you sign, we tell you before you sign.

Not money

Any one of these is worth as much to us as a cheque, and some of them are worth more. The venue is the one we lose sleep over.

  • A venue for 120 people, 7:00am to 10:00pm

  • Pre-configured loaner laptops

  • AI coding tool access for students who need it

  • Breakfast, lunch and dinner from a licensed caterer

  • Mentors — working engineers and builders, for the afternoon

Yes, no, or ask me in three weeks — all of them help. sponsors@shipschool.org

If it’s a no, send one name instead.