Need a new sponsorship idea.

[Jim147]

Ok I'll try to keep this short.

My daughter is smart. Not just a little bit but she pushes me at this point.

Freshman in high school already going to her second state Science Olympiad. Already doing college classes. After she gets done with year of school, going to state and softball, she will go spend a month in college.

She now has a chance to do a week at the science and technology college building a satellite and launching it. The problem is the cost. $950 for the class. Three quarters of the way across the state so thinking $1200-1500 total.

We have paid for all the stuff before that. I have two surgeries coming up so I won't be making much for a while so looking for options for a corporate sponsor. She already has a couple of scholarships set up after high school but can't find any to pay for this.

I know I could try a go fund me or something, but I would think there are companies out there that would invest to get someone like her later.

Any thoughts?

[dogmush]

SpaceX?

[Boomhauer]

I think your problem is going to be reaching the right person at such a company. She needs to create a LinkDn profile and browse for the recruitment sections of companies would be the best guess I have.

The other thing would be to see if there is any kind of grants available for this program through the college. The financial aid and program coordinators should be able to either help or may have ideas of their own.

She definitely needs to play the women in STEM angle as well. These companies and schools eat that *expletive deleted*it up

[Kingcreek]

By any chance does the high school have a school foundation or 501(c)3 type arm that is donor driven?
Or a local org like Kiwanis or Rotary? If the groups won’t support it they at least have donor connections.

[JTHunter]

Jim - I don't have any suggestions for you but did want to wish you luck with your surgeries and to your daughter as this could be a fantastic experience for her.  I have a niece that went to Space Camp at about the same age and she ended up working on the Shuttle boosters in Utah.  We get to describe her as a "blond-haired, blue-eyed rocket scientist". 

[Jim147]

Thanks everyone. She is enrolled. We will see if she makes the class. It's limited in size. I thought about SpaceX but beside bugging Elon, I wasn't sure how to proceed. Our town is less than 300 people now so nut much going on for local funding but we did find a scholarship program from the college once we started signing her up. We won't know for a month if she will get that, but we had someone step up to pay for this if not.

I need to keep looking into this because I think this is going to be a common thing for the next few years and I want her to have every opportunity to learn in the field she wants to make a career out of.