Nemesis Sponsor Networking Night
Four weeks into the build season, Nemesis 2590 briefly stopped prototyping, dropped their tools, and took a break from the usual chaos to host the best night of the month, Nemesis’s Sponsor Networking Night!
As a robotics team and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Nemesis depends on donations from sponsors to support the team. Nemesis’s Sponsor Networking Night provides the most direct way to maintain relationships with sponsors and thank them for their support. Through various presentations, hands-on demos, and interactions with team members. Nemesis provides its sponsors with an insight into how the team operates.
The night began as pairs of students greeted sponsors and parents. They were then escorted to presentations offered by the different subteams. Senior build executives, Danny Marincas and Mathew Joseph, explained the 2020 FIRST Robotics Competition Game Challenge: Infinite Recharge. Providing insight to the robot parts, explaining the team’s strategy for the season, and playing a video displaying the prototype of the robot. After the presentation, students answered technical questions about the robot and the game challenge as well.
In the business center, senior Zach Harris as well as juniors Josh Lichtenstein and Madhu Seshadri gave a presentation which recapped Nemesis’s successful 2018-2019 season as well as their community outreach. Sponsors such as Mrs. Thadal, Mr. Mollica, Assemblyman Benson, and Councilman Schuberth had the opportunity to watch these presentations.
During the past season, the team won the Bensalem District Competition along with three Entrepreneurship Awards. Currently, the team is working on an initiative with the local government to help establish a pilot program that provides grant funding to school districts to participate in FIRST Robotics Competitions. Nemesis also sponsored a STEM challenge introducing underprivileged students to FIRST on a trip to Panama with the New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists.
Finally, sponsors experienced the robots in action as they watched students drive Nemesis’s 2019 award winning robot Gaia and the 2018 robot Fury. The student drivers demonstrated how the robots picked up balls and shot them. In 2007, Nemesis began as a small 14 student team, now the team has grown to over 60 members. Nemesis takes pride in their many accomplishments and extensive community outreach. This would not be possible without the support of Nemesis’s sponsors, friends, and family.
Nemesis 2590 would like to extend its gratitude towards the wonderful sponsors who made this season possible: Navair, Robbinsville High School, Picatinny Arsenal, Lockheed Martin, DoDStem, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CCL Label, Investors Foundation, New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists, Robbinsville Education Association, Sharbell Development, RAS, Robbinsville Education Foundation, Princeton Sports and Family Medicine, EAG Laboratories, DesignTree, CCC, Gilbane, Triangle Copy, SkyLink Technology, Inc., Coldwell Banker, and the family and friends of Nemesis.
