Help students build — and help the region build with them
Companies contribute engineering expertise, employee volunteers, materials and fabrication, grants, and sponsorship. That support reaches past our season-long competition teams: 2,500+ students reached each year through camps, workshops, school programs, and the competitions we host.
Real technical work
Students design in CAD, fabricate parts, wire systems, write and debug control code, test under competition pressure, document their decisions, and lead build teams to a deadline. Partner engineers review that work the way it gets reviewed in industry — which is most of the value, and none of the cost.
Regional capacity
Leagues, qualifiers, championships, and combat events run here because someone pays for the fields, the arenas, the equipment, and the volunteer crews. Partner support is what keeps those competition days in the region instead of a long drive away.
Access to opportunity
Funding and in-kind support keep participation affordable, put students on teams who could not otherwise join one, and help school programs get equipment of their own and become sustainable without us.
Find the right way to participate
Mentoring, technical reviews, judging, and instruction — your engineers working directly with student build teams.
Steel, aluminum, polycarbonate, machining, laser cutting, and welding for robots, fields, and arenas.
Competition days, robot inspection, field operations, and workshops — the crews that make an event happen.
Scholarships, free workshops, equipment for new school programs, and the events we host.
The 15-pound combat arena
With Sierra College Mechatronics, for youth and collegiate competition, college instruction, and industry demonstrations. It needs materials, machining, laser cutting, welding, and fabrication support — a concrete place for a company with a shop to start.
The arena project →Partnership in action
Free robotics, at no cost to the school
Grant funding from United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC) and First Tech Federal Credit Union pays for RISE — free “Robot Olympics” workshops for grades 4–6, run with the school or community group that hosts them. 70 students across 4 workshops so far, and the school pays nothing.
“First Tech loves the work Placer Robotics is doing in the community.”
MEGAN LEHMAN · SR PROGRAM MANAGER, FIRST TECH FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Olive Grove Elementary runs its own program now
One RISE workshop started it. We provided all the equipment for Olive Grove's first year and mentored the program while their teacher ran the team. The year ended with three competition teams — and over the summer their teacher secured district funding. This season Olive Grove runs the program on equipment of its own. That is what supported equipment is for: a school that no longer needs it.
“None of this would have been possible without Placer Robotics. I am confident that our kids will never forget this opportunity. We felt so supported.”
SARAH COUNTER · SCIENCE TEACHER AND ROBOTICS COACH, OLIVE GROVE ELEMENTARY
Join the community behind the work
Every season runs on parents, engineers, educators, and community volunteers who mentor teams, inspect robots, judge competitions, operate fields, and help students finish what they started. None of it existed here before people decided to build it. Corporate partners bring expertise and capacity to that community — and a place for your engineers to spend a Saturday doing something they will talk about on Monday.
Start with a conversation
Tell us what your company can offer — people, materials, fabrication, funding, or a project — and we will find a useful place to begin.