I got an email yesterday from a young upstart after a spot of sponsorship for himself and his mates to help them build a middleweight combat robot for RoboGames.

I presume he’s not meaning one of these fellas.

As his email goes:

Hello, my name is Trent Brown. I’m a 15 year old Homeschool student. I’m seeking a sponsorship, on behalf of my robot team consisting of 3 additional teammates, to assist toward competing in the 2008 RoboGames. RoboGames (combat event) is a 3 day worldwide robot competition where each team will design and build a robot that has weapon systems, armor, and mobile abilities, with the intention of defeating its opponents (other teams). By competing, the students on our team will receive high school credit, along with experience in engineering, building, and competition.

Should your company decide to sponsor our team, we will place your company logos on our robot and toolboxes, as well we will print your company logo on our T-shirts. We WILL also use other ways to make known that we were sponsored by your company. Our middleweight robot is going to cost around $8,000-$10,000 to build and any amount of money donated will be greatly appreciated.

Now he’s given me permission to post something about this, but I’ll only give out the team email address - teamdeltarobotics@gmail.com teamannihilare@gmail.com - where you can get in touch if you’d like to help out. You can get in touch yourself for a mail address.

I suppose if we could get enough tinbashing types to chip in then it wouldn’t cost a bundle. In fact, as I write this I’m becoming more inclined to drop a bit of hard-earned their way. I might even set them up a blog so we can help them online and keep track of their progress.

Anybody game? I’ll do it if you’ll do it………