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Raising the bar of capstone sponsorship and partnership!

Dear Sponsor,

Thanks to our sponsors the CCS capstone program at NJIT has become a shining star with over 350 projects and 250 sponsors in the last six years with a very high rate of success. In a relatively short period of time, the capstone program has grown exponentially to become one of the highest on-demand and most talked-about programs in the university and beyond. In 2007, our capstone program was featured in the Daily Record, the Start Ledger and on News 12 NJ in addition to many press releases and publications.
 
Starting as a 3-credit hour new course in 2002 to introduce senior level college students to some real world experiences, the program has evolved over the years into a complex learning organization that took undergraduate education, graduate education and high school education to a whole new level that integrates real world practices with every curricula and learning activity. Today, the capstone program is expanding even further to include new learning communities such as middle school students, community colleges students and state-wide, national and international collaboration and partnership opportunities with current international student and sponsor partnerships forming.

The capstone program today includes an open university, a fast career development program, an entrepreneurship track, a research and development track, a university-wide multidisciplinary project course, an alumni and industry advisory board as well as a project management and leadership training program. We are also in the process of expanding our program to include post capstone support to help our clients beyond the formal duration of the semester.
 
To learn more about the capstone program, please visit our evolving website at: www.capstoneprogram.com  
 
We remain true to our guiding principles of serving qualified students needs with the unwavering goal of the capstone program to produce highly successful professionals through mentoring. Evolving the program integrating real world earning practices curricula where employers become educator supporters and students become innovator partners. We strongly believe that university and industry have a social responsibility toward the communities will live in. We have evolved a process to produce this result by designing a unique dynamic learning environment that connects all educational levels from middle school to graduate school with strong emphasis on senior level college students and high school students.
 
 As our program has grown over the last six years with partnerships of a large network of sponsors, with significance of assurance of quality deliverables built on a clear understanding of stakeholders requirements. Consistencies in producing quality deliverables are a result of proactively designing, creating and supporting a unique learning and training environment for our students. 
 
This dedication to quality in learning and production requires dedicated staffing, industry-level curriculum development, specialized coaching, marketing, showcases, presentations, mentorship, use of technology and equipment that are associated with many other expenses that go above and beyond traditional learning environments that currently exist in the university. Our showcases events alone cost a minimum of $10,000 every year. Upon your request, we will be happy to share with you a copy of our proposed comprehensive budget for the academic year 2007-2008.
 
With the success of our program there is very high demand with limited student team building capacity. Each semester we reject more than 60% of the projects that we receive because of lack of human resources. This semester we received more than 40 projects from 31 sponsors yet we can only do 16 of them. This demand requires the program to expand into new learning communities including more graduate students, university-wide students, freshman and community collage students as well talented high school students not to mention other possible partnerships and collaborations. 
 
All this growth comes at a real cost that makes it impossible for our program to continue to assure quality to our students learning and sponsors deliverables based on the free voluntary model we have been operating under over the past 6 years. In keeping with this, starting from this Fall 2007 semester, we will raise the bar of industry sponsorship and partnership extend the definition of sponsorship to include essential financial support so all the capstone sponsors share the responsibility of maintaining this program and contribute to this unique learning environment for our students. After carefully reviewing our large budget for CCS capstone program in the next academic year, our capstone industry and alumni advisory board resolved to create a sponsor Support Program to be put in place starting from the Fall 2007 semester as follows:
 
Registration fee for project submission and participation in sponsors showcase to students: $200.00
(will be waived if project was selected or moved to the next semester if not selected)

Semester-based tiered Program supporter Gift Structure per project per team is:
 
Capstone Program Basic Gift Supporter: $500.00 (minimum level)
 
Advanced Support Options
(Raising it from sponsorship to partnership) 

Through supporting our program, our industry partners are making a long-term investment in US youth, our leaders of tomorrow and decision makers. The following is a list of options of how corporations can contribute to creating a more qualified American workforce, by supporting the growth and sustainability of our program.

With the advanced level of contributions to the capstone program, additional sponsorship benefits include a press release about the company in the local media; mention of the company’s name on the capstone website and other capstone publications; inclusion of the company name in an appreciation advertisement in the our major events and showcase; participation in the graduation ceremony for the adopted programs(s) and in related graduation events.

1- Capstone Essentials Package

Investment Levels: $25,000 (diamond), $15,000 (gold), 10,000 (silver), $5000 (bronze: events meals/refreshments & supplies )
 
Capstone showcases, new capstone office (supplies & equipments), marketing (students & sponsors), recruitment (university-wide, graduate level and high school) , students achievements recognition, specialized staff and mentorship, extra transportation and communication expenses.

2- Capstone Open University extended Learning Programs
 
Investment Levels: $10,000 (diamond), $5000 (gold), $3000 (silver), 1000 (bronze: events meals/refreshments & supplies)
 
High school programs, middle school program, adopt a school (satellite location) and community college program.
 
3- Capstone Open University Training Packages

Investment Levels: $10,000 (diamond), $5000 (gold), $3000 (silver), 1000 (bronze: events meals/refreshments & supplies )

Entrepreneurship program development, project management and leadership training, web development training and much more!
Contributing sponsors - above the bronze level- are eligible to attend our training at no cost.
 
4- High School Summer Programs

Investment Levels: $10,000 (diamond), $5000 (gold), $3000 (silver), 1000 (bronze: events meals/refreshments)

Summer Internship Program, Summer Camp and Job shadowing program
 
Learn More at: www.capstoneprogram.com/hs.aspx  

This will allow us to continue to provide you with the best possible Capstone program project success, expand our capacity and create a high-performance learning environment for our students.

To ensure proper delivery of your capstone program gift, please make your check paid to university advancement office at NJIT (Capstone Program account - responsible person Osama Eljabiri) no later than Friday Sep 14, 2007 clearly specifying in your support letter that this is a gift for the CCS capstone program (Account Number: 889141) and it is in support of the capstone program activities including our capstone open university programs for NJIT students, high school students and other extended learning communities in the program as indicated above.
 
Please reply to this email as soon as possible to confirm your acceptance of the basic sponsorship and/or one or more of the advanced partnership level(s). Once we receive your confirmation, I will send you a formal invitation (and all other details) to present to our students in our Fall 2007 showcase on Wed Sep 19th from 2:30-5:30PM.
 
If you have not submitted a project proposal yet, you can consider this email as an extension for submission until Friday Sep 7th , 2007. Please complete our online proposal at:
 
Thank you
Best regards,

Osama Eljabiri
Senior University Lecturer and Director of Capstone Program
NJIT
College of Computing Science
University Heights
Newark, NJ 07102 USA
Work: (973) 642-7123
Mobile: (973) 981-1049
Email: oe2@adm.njit.edu
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