Partners in Education! Sponsored Projects

Contact us to sponsor your circuit board project and get listed here!

Sunstone Circuits PCBexpress and/or PCBpro Sponsorship policy:

PCBexpress and/or PCBpro will donate PCB boards only to non-profit organizations or educational institutions up to a limit of $350 per calendar year. In return, the organization will recognize PCBexpress contributions by adding the following: our link to the organization's web site, PCBexpress and/or PCBpro logos to their projects, and/or any other applicable recognition of sponsorship.

For multiple orders, we can offer 20% discount to qualifying organizations, if they are willing to provide ample exposure for our services through their web site or on their project. The limit of the discount is $500.

The sponsorship team will review other sponsorship inquiries or exceptions to the above on a case-by-case basis. For consideration, please send sponsorship requests including project detail to: telbert@sunstone.com

Current Projects:

The Mobile integrated Architecture is an embedded platform offering an open architecture for the development of applications in various vertical markets. Potential applications includes robotic controllers, smart phones, portable multimedia players, wireless data acquisitions, car anti-theft systems, wireless controllers, etc.

Oregon State OSU SAE 2003 Mini-Baja Competition Team: Oregon State University SAE single seated baja car to be competing in Utah Spring 2003. Go Beaves! See the OSU baja car in action and read the design project specs that placed this team #1 for the Senior Design Project at the 2002 competition.

Cornell University Formula SAE 2003 Racing Team The Cornell University FSAE team consists of extremely dedicated Cornell Students who design, build, test, and race a single-seat racecar for the annual FSAE competition, which is held in Detroit in May. 2002 UPDATE: See the Champions again here!

Oklahoma State University Formula SAE Racing Team 2003: The OSU Formula Society of Automotive Engineers is designing and building its fifth formula-style car for the annual competition in Detroit. Last year they placed 13th in the Design Event and won 2nd place in the Bosch Engine Management award in a field of about 125 cars.

Upcoming Projects:

• Newberg Oregon High School Robot Bob prep for Society of Manufacturing Engineers
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• Iowa State Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept: Universal RF Link

• Montana State University 2001 Senior Board FPGA design project.
  
• Cornell University 2002 RoboCup Team Our third year to sponsor this international RoboCup competition which entails the construction of fully autonomous, fast-moving robots, which work together as a team to compete against similar teams of robots in a robotic soccer match.
  UPDATE: Big Red Wins!
  
• Seattle Pacific University: SPU Senior Design Project Courses: Microprocessor-based Mixed Signal System Design I,II,III.

• PARTS: Portland Area Robotics Society sponsors a robotic competition and event every year. This year's PDXBOT was May 19, 2002 at Portland State University.

  Robot Competition and Exposition,the yearly competitions are growing with widespread interest which bring together local students, mentors & hobbyist. The competition was a very successful and entertaining event for all: PARTS members, school-age whiz kids, and visitors too! Take a look at our photos from this event.
  PARTS event website: http://www.portlandrobotics.org/PDXBOT/index.html

• Cornell University Formula SAE 2001 Racing Team The Cornell University FSAE team consists of extremely dedicated Cornell Students who design, build, test, and race a single-seat racecar for the annual FSAE competition, which is held in Detroit in May.
  Update: Cornell Formula SAE Racing Team takes 1st in the 2001 FSAE Competition!!!

• C.M.U. Mobot Race 2000 "The Sixth Annual Carnegie Mellon Mobot Slalom Race" in the spring of 2000. Participants will race autonomous vehicles "Mobile Robots."

Brian Doughtery preparing his CMU Mobot for the great race! (He won!) Update 4-21-2000: This Robot took 1st Place in the mobot undergraduate class!

• Robot Mini-Sumo Competition Oregon Museum of Science & Industry OMSI, hosted both 2000 and 2001 competitions bringing together local students, mentors & hobbyist, Sponsored by P.A.R.T.S. (Portland Area Robotics Society) The competition was a very successful and entertaining event for all: PARTS members, school-age whiz kids, and OMSI visitors too!

• Cornell University 2000 RoboCup The Cornell RoboCup Project is designed to teach Systems Engineering concepts to students to prepare them for designing, integrating, and maintaining highly complex systems. Update: 9-3-2001 Cornell wins the Robocup 2000 F180 (small size) competition for the second straight year in Melbourne, Australia.
  
  
• MIT 1999 Solar Car Race MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) took first place in it's class with it's "Manta GTX" solar car in the World Solar Challenge. NOTE: We are very proud of this team and glad they offered the challenge to launch this educational opportunity! This team piloted our sponsorship program!