The award-winning Avnet Tech Games offers interested sponsors a wide range of options that include advertising, marketing and branding opportunities. You choose between local Arizona opportunities or national branding.

Get on board now for the 2011 Avnet Tech Games. Summer contests start soon and you can be part of that marketing and advertising campaign.

Click here to download the 2011 fact sheet.

Thank you to our 2010 sponsors!

Want your company to be front and center at a championship game? Here’s your chance – be a sponsor of the sixth annual Avnet Tech Games. If your game plan includes scouting future talent, enhancing technology workforce education, building your brand and exercising good corporate citizenship, the Avnet Tech Games is for you. We offer a full range of high-value sponsorship packages that make it easy for you to join our 2011 all-star roster.

Just a few of the sponsorship elements available:

• television spots and on-air PR segments
• print ads
• logo opportunities, including Web site and marketing placements
• social media campaign
• banners and signage
• recognition at the VIP reception
• an opportunity for employees to serve as judges

The Avnet Tech Games offers corporate sponsors the opportunity to:

• fulfill community relations goals by supporting technology education
• directly communicate with core demographics
• meet tomorrow’s leaders and scout for future employees
• provide real-world experiences that prepare students for the workforce
• obtain new solutions and approaches to business challenges
• network with peers and executives from Avnet, high-tech companies and sponsors
• network with peers and executives from Avnet, other high-tech companies and sponsors
• network with local college, institute and university administrators, faculty members and staff

Check back with us soon to see the 2010 event recap.

Click to view the 2010 Highlights or to view the Results.

“This is one of our most successful signature events - a partnership between technology businesses and the education community. I encourage any company interested in supporting the future of technology to get involved in this award-winning event and be inspired by these students.”
   – Roy Vallee, Chairman and CEO, Avnet

Here’s what a few of our previous sponsors have to say:

“It was really an exciting event and I’m pleased that Freescale’s sponsorship was able to help so many students. As a judge, I watched the light bulbs go off over students’ heads as they applied what they’d learned to real world scenarios. I wish I’d had something like the Avnet Tech Games when I was first starting out.”
   – Shaun Neddermeyer, Freescale

“At the Avnet Tech Games awards ceremony, I approached one of the students I’d observed during the competition, gave him my business card and told him that I had a job for him after he graduates. It wasn’t an internship or a job interview I was offering him. I was so impressed with his capabilities that I’m ready to hire him on the spot.”
  – Steven Roberts, Partner, New Angle Media

“The Avnet Tech Games was created so that businesses, like Avnet and STMicroelectronics, can come together in support of students looking for a career in the high-tech industry. And, for me, it was exciting to get a sneak peek at our future employees.”
   – Joan Eisenhauer, STMicroelectronics

And here’s what a few of our previous participants have to say:

"There I was blindly pushing forward toward a better life - with no idea what it was going to be. That's when I met an instructor who saw something in me that I didn't see myself. He recommended I participate in the Avnet Tech Games and I’ll always thank him for that. It opened a world of opportunity for me. I learned a lot from the games, but I came away with much more – first, a summer internship with Avnet and, then a full-time position. The Avnet Tech Games gave me more than a great experience I will never forget; it gave me a better life."
   – Nicholas Hare, 2008 Student Participant

“I signed up for the Avnet Tech Games assuming it was just another academic competition. In reality, they did much more than gauge my technical ability. To succeed, the Games demanded leadership, team work, innovation, and time management. Now that I am in the workforce, I have to use those critical skills every single day! I would strongly encourage any student who has the opportunity to participate in this unique event to do so.”
   – Cory Kincaid, 2006 Student Participant

For more information, e-mail AvnetTechGames@Avnet.com or call (480) 643-7657.

Scholarships and honorariums provided by Carstens Family Funds and administered by the Arizona Technology Council.