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Sponsor the build

As a student-led team we rely on strategic sponsorship and community funding to design, build and deploy our rovers on the world stage.

The offer

In appreciation of your partnership, we feature your brand on our competition apparel, our digital platforms, and directly on the rover chassis as it tackles the toughest terrains.

Partner

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific

    Thermo Fisher Scientific

    Our partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific allows us to procure lab-grade chemicals and equipment to develop, test, and perform our suite of biochemical assays at a price suitable for a student design team. Their generous support has permitted the science subteam to rapidly prototype and iterate on complex lab-on-a-chip systems without needing to ration reagents, supporting our mission to be the first university engineering team to apply microfluidics in Martian life-detection systems.

  • Ember Prototypes

    Ember Prototypes

    Ember Prototypes has unlocked entirely new rapid manufacturing avenues for us through their generous sponsorship of a Form 3B+ printer, a resin starter package, and the Ember Prototypes Toolkit. Crucially, this setup drives our initiative to become the first student robotics team to develop functional microfluidic lab-on-a-chip systems for Martian life detection. Beyond bio-assay chips, we leverage this technology across the entire rover. We use Clear resin to produce optically transparent, waterproof enclosures for our main floodlights and status indicators, and engineering resins to print intricate, high-strength geometries for our robotic arm's end effector.

Champion

  • AARC-WEST Industrial
  • Northstar Access
  • UBC Engineering

Supporters

  • McCrae
  • Tradecomm
  • UBC MEC
  • Petrokleen

Friends

  • GCT
  • Electromate
  • MistyWest

Put your name on our rover

We would be glad to talk through what a partnership could look like.

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