Sponsorship Opportunities
Below is a sampling of the many events, activities, and current initiatives where your support could make a real difference. Each is critical to the department's vision and/or ongoing operation, each offers corporate exposure to large and varied audiences, and each carries a sponsorship value of approximately $2,500 (unless noted otherwise).
Welcome Back Bash
This popular event, typically held in August at
the start of the fall semester, is hosted by CSC & ECE student organizations and serves as the official welcome back for students,
faculty & staff to the new school year. By popular demand, the
event has been open to students from all engineering disciplines. It is
traditionally held in the Masnari Gateway at EBII, and features a
DJ, BBQ, fried chicken and all the fixin's. Student organizations and
event sponsors typically have a presence with table-top displays and
use this as a recruiting event. Your sponsorship helps cover
entertainment, equipment rental, catering, door prizes, etc.
Platinum Sponsorships for this event run $10K, Gold $5K, and Silver $2.5K.
Centennial Campus Challenge
The Centennial Campus Challenge is a relatively new engineering
tradition on campus that calls for students and engineering student
organizations to maintain a continuous camp in the Oval between
Engineering Buildings 1, 2, and 3 on Centennial Campus for a full
academic week. The event will serve to increase involvement in the
engineering student community through The Greatest Engineers Challenge
and daily events, increase awareness of NCSU engineering for freshman
and prospective high school students, and promote relationship-
building between engineering student organizations and departments
within the college of engineering. The Centennial Campus Challenge
will continue to grow as an annual tradition for the continuing
development of Centennial Campus student culture and engineering
outreach service.
Diploma Ceremony - Fall or Spring
Both ceremonies are regularly
attended by 1200 - 1500 graduates, family, friends and faculty.
Typically, they are held in large venues such as Meymandi Concert Hall
in downtown Raleigh, or Providence Baptist Church. Your sponsorship
goes toward covering the cost of facility rental, refreshments,
entertainment, and publications.
"CSC eNews Online"
This departmental eNewsletter is distributed
monthly to approximately 5,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni, and
corporate contacts. News items are segmented and distributed by
audience category, and linked back to the complete eNews online
site. Your sponsorship covers the entire year and supports web and email
feature enhancements, address management, etc.
"Connected" Alumni Newsletter
This hard copy departmental newsletter
is mailed to approximately 5,000 alumni, corporate VIPs, and faculty
members twice each year, typically in early fall. Your sponsorship
supports publication enhancements, printing, and distribution costs.
Senior Design Center "Posters & Pies" Event Sponsorship - Fall or Spring
At the end of every semester, student project teams present
summary project presentations and hands-on demos of their semester's
project work to sponsors and VIP corporate guests. Approximately
200-300 people attend this event. Your sponsorship covers facility
rental, refreshments, and related publications.
YE Game Development Showcase
This extremely popular end-of-semester event highlights the
collaborative, team-based projects of computer science and industrial
design students working to create computer games. The is a high-
profile event, typically generating significant news coverage. And
because it draws in a large number of students in the K-12 space, it
is considered a strategic outreach and student recruitment event for
the department. Your sponsorship covers event planning, catering,
refreshments, and promotional materials. Note: Because of the size and
overall expense of this event, we can accommodate multiple sponsors.
Strategic Advisory Board Networking Reception & Dinner
The SAB is a group of approximately 25 business executives and academic leaders who
meet annually with department leaders to provide guidance and
direction in support of the department's strategic planning efforts.
Your sponsorship helps cover the expense of the pre-event networking
social and dinner at the Park Alumni Center. If sponsor is not
represented on the SAB, an invitation to the social and dinner will be
issued.
Strategic Advisory Board Networking Breakfast & Lunch
Held on the day of the SAB's annual meeting, these events provide our SAB
members an opportunity to network with various members of our faculty,
staff, and key student leaders. Your sponsorship helps cover catering,
floral, and other associated expenses. If sponsor is not
represented on the SAB, an invitation to attend the breakfast and/or lunch will be
issued.
ACM Regional Programming Contest Teams
Each fall, NCSU sends one or more teams to compete in the regional ACM Programming
Competition. Your sponsorship helps cover the teams' travel and living expenses for this weekend event.
Year-end Awards Reception
This celebratory event is held in April,
at the end of the academic year, and serves to recognize our students,
faculty & staff who have won awards throughout the year. Your
sponsorship helps cover facilities, audio-visual, and catering expenses.
Undergraduate Recruitment Materials
We are continually working to
attract the most talented students possible into our program. Your
sponsorship will help cover publication and distribution costs for our
undergraduate recruitment materials.
Graduate Publications
Multiple named sponsorships are available in
this category and vary from year-to-year. Publications available
for named sponsorship include our Graduate Brochure, Research Brochure,
Graduate Recruiting Material, and several others. Your sponsorship
will help cover publication and distribution costs for one such
publication.
Faculty Retreat
Traditionally, our faculty retreat takes place in
August and/or January, just before students arrive back on campus. It
is typically one of the few times during the academic year that our
faculty can come together to focus on long-term strategic planning.
Your sponsorship will help cover the cost of off-site room rental,
AV equipment rental, and catering.
Faculty "Working Lunches"
These are weekly themed working sessions allowing computer science
faculty to come together over lunch to discuss a variety of topics
including strategic direction of the department, best practices,
research overviews, professional development, etc. Due to the nature
of faculty work (long and crazy hours balancing teaching, research and
office hours), these sessions provide a much-needed and structured
opportunity for faculty to come together to learn, share, and bond.
ACM/AITP Year-end Cookout
This popular year-end event typically held
in May is hosted by the local chapters of the ACM/AITP, but is open to
the entire department (students and faculty). Your sponsorship
helps cover shelter rental, catering, and supplies.
Outreach Initiative Targeting Attraction of Females & Minorities
This year, we want to develop and implement Phase 1 of a comprehensive
strategy designed to increase the percentages of females and
minorities entering the computer science discipline at NC State.
Initial ideas include a comprehensive communications campaign, an
update of the department's web page for prospective students,
properly seeding an extensive network of alumni volunteers across the state
to deliver targeted messages, expanding and enhancing the focus of summer
camps as a recruiting tool, and use of podcasts, videos, and other
electronic communications to hit our target audience.
Students and Technology in Academics, Research, and Service (STARS)
Research Initiative
STARS is a multi-institutional alliance to broaden participation in
computing. Initially funded by the National Science Foundation, its
goal is to increase both the diversity and number of talented
computing professionals through a variety of efforts focused at
students at the university level and earlier. At NC State, the STARS
Student Leadership Corps consists of a diverse group of bright
students who join together to make a difference in the community
through service, and to influence younger students toward computing
through outreach efforts. While the National Science Foundation funds
a small stipend for each STARS student, our group is in need of
additional funding for group activities, middle school outreach,
travel to the STARS Workshop, and other important endeavors.
Graduate Research Symposium
This new initiative will provide a forum for graduate students to learn about serving on a program or
organizing committee, and to practice their writing and presentation
skills in a constructive collaborative environment. This forum, the
Symposium for Graduate Research (SGR), will be a graduate
student-run research conference to promote dissemination and collaboration of
computer science graduate research within our department, and others
across the nation. Senior level graduate students participate in the
SGR as members of the organizing committee and/or the program
committee. The organizing committee organizes the symposium
program, location, refreshments, and reception. The program committee
reviews the research paper submissions and evaluates the quality of
submissions for acceptance to the symposium. Junior graduate students
submit research papers outlining their current research to be reviewed
by their peers. Research papers can be accepted as full papers with a
30-minute presentation at the symposium or short papers with a
poster presentation during an evening reception. A best paper award will
be presented to the best full paper as voted by the program committee.
Corporate participation and involvement (panelist, speakers,
mentors, etc.) is planned. View draft of the proposal online.
Women in Computer Science (WiCS)
Since its launch in 2002, the WiCS student organization has been focused on improving the attraction
and retention rates for women in the computer science field by providing
female mentors, speakers, and social networking opportunities to its
members. Sponsorship funds help cover the cost of speaker fees,
facility rentals, refreshments, publications, outreach and
recruiting
events.
Regardless of the choice you make, your sponsorship will be prominently noted via announcements, print & web collateral, banners, and/or other highly visible means.
To discuss any of these sponsorship opportunities in
detail, please contact:
Kenneth M. Tate
Director of Development & External Relations
NC State University
Department of Computer Science
Campus Box 8206 / 1204-F EBII
Raleigh, NC 27695-8206
(919) 513-4292 - Office
Email: tate@csc.ncsu.edu
