Sponsorship here does one specific thing: it pays the faculty honoraria and underwrites the sponsored seats. That is the trade. You fund the people on stage and the families in the room, and you get the credit for it in a room you actually want to be in.
We are specific about this because most sponsorship decks are not. Here is the allocation priority, in order.
Honoraria and travel. A $10,000 faculty seat is what lets us ask a career practitioner for a full day instead of a favor.
Every Family and Student pass is underwritten. Cost never keeps a kid out — sponsorship is the reason that sentence is true.
Screened mentors, background checks, two-adult rule, and take-home device packages for kids who need them.
Isolated, authorized lab infrastructure. Nothing we teach ever touches a network we don't own.
Higher tiers are capped so they stay meaningful. All tiers include logo placement, program listing, and an on-site presence appropriate to the level.
Local business, small firm, family foundation.
Regional firms and mid-size companies.
Companies making a real bet on the pipeline.
The single highest-impact thing to fund here.
Named alongside the event across every surface.
A multi-year institutional partnership, not a logo buy.
Add to any tier, or take one on its own. Each attaches your name to a specific, visible piece of the day rather than a logo grid.
The device and build runway — new hardware, student builds, the showcase walk. Named on the runway and in every photo of it.
Funds the sanctioned, isolated lab infrastructure. Named on the range, the scoreboard, and the finals.
Underwrite one named faculty seat outright. "The [Your Name] Ethics Lab Chair." Introduced from the stage.
Underwrite the full Civics Lab — twelve sessions across junior, teen, and adult tracks. "The [Your Name] Civics Lab." Named on the lab, in the curriculum, and in the run sheets. Buys no say in what is taught, which is exactly why the seat is credible.
Puts a printed "Spot the Fakery" and "Trace the Claim" pack in the hands of every kid and teen who walks through, plus the classroom sets educators take home.
Covers the Civics Lab educator intensive and take-home classroom kits for teachers from Title I and rural districts. Named, allocated, and reported back by district.
The place everyone ends up. Includes a sensory-friendly quiet room — genuinely appreciated, rarely sponsored.
Your mark on every neck in the building, all day, in every photo.
Travel stipends, device packages, and seats for students who could not otherwise come. Fully allocated, reported back to you.
Hardware for the Juniors Room and take-home packages. Reviewed for privacy and child-safety posture before acceptance.
Feeds the entire building, including every sponsored-pass family. Named on every table.
The networking hour where hiring actually happens. Named host, with a recruiting table.
Scroll sideways on a phone. Pass allocations are per tier and transferable within your organization.
| Benefit | Community | Silver | Gold | Juniors | Presenting | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investment | $5K | $15K | $35K | $50K | $100K | $250K |
| Logo — site & program | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Expo presence | Shared | Table | Premium | Premium | Premium | Premium |
| General Admission passes | 4 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 20 | 30 |
| Pro Passes | — | 2 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 30 |
| Executive Day passes | — | — | 2 | 2 | 10 | 15 |
| Named faculty seat | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Named in annual report | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Co-brand |
| Faculty dinner seats | — | — | — | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| Main-stage remarks | — | — | — | — | 3 min | 5 min |
| Band C briefing included | — | — | — | — | Private | Boardroom |
| Advisory council seat | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Availability | Open | Open | Open | 1 | 1 | 1 · invite |
Year-one planning targets for a first-time event.
Total attendance target across all three bands.
Sponsored family, student, and educator seats — the whole point.
Juniors Room participants across the day, fully supervised.
Recordings, curriculum, and the annual report keep circulating after the day ends.
Tell us what you want out of it and what you can fund. If a tier isn't the right shape for you, we'll build the activation that is — or tell you honestly that we're not a fit.