=Educated Business=We are the Los Gatos Community Robotics team, Team 7096, Educated Business.This year, we are starting a new team to compete in the FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC), in which local high school students compete in a sports-like competition with custom-made robots. We’ve started a new team to give more students the opportunity to directly develop and apply their skills to this exciting and creative robotics program. To participate in the FRC, we need sponsors to help us build our robot and compete at competitions. This is a serious robotics endeavor with over 20 fully committed members and community, parental, and school support.This competition helps build interest in STEM (Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology) throughout our school and the community at large:• Allows youth to apply their knowledge from STEM classes in school and acquire real world experience.• Inspires the next generation of engineers, creative thinkers, and leaders.In addition to competing in regional tournaments, our robotics team does many things to support our school and community.• Raises interest in STEM throughout our school and community through demonstrations. Many local robotics teams build T-shirt shooting robots for football games!• Brings STEM education across the school district by helping LEGO robotics teams in elementary and middle school.• Teaches life skills such as cooperation, inclusiveness, teamwork and professionalism.Building robots is expensive! You can help us pay the bill so we can keep spreading our message throughout our community.Our budget for FRC 2017 is approximately $8,000 dollars. This money will be spent on:• Team registration• Various robot parts• Electronic components• Programming and CAD computersAny amount of contribution is appreciated!Please contact us at (408) 384-2195 or [email redacted]