Sponsor a scholarship

Pay for a young person's place.
See exactly where it went.

Stardust Odyssey is free to join and paid at the top. Some of the young people who most need the paid tier — youth in care, orphaned, Indigenous, and those whose families simply cannot afford it — will never buy it. Sponsored places close that gap, and every place you fund is reported back to you as a number you can show your own board.

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48countries
27courses
0scholarships awarded
20funded places waiting

How it works

Four steps, and only one of them is yours.

01You commitTell us how many places, at which tier, and for how long. We invoice — no card, no subscription, and we are used to procurement, EINs and W-9s.
02We award themPlaces go to young people who apply for hardship support. We never ask a young person to prove their circumstances, and they are never told a company paid for their place.
03They use itCourses, mentoring, live sessions, the Stardust Challenge. Each finished course issues a certificate that young person can show a university or an employer.
04You get the reportA live page — places funded, awarded and remaining, countries reached, what they completed. One link, no login, ready to forward.

What a place costs

A sponsored place costs what the same membership costs anybody else. There is no markup, and these figures are read straight from our pricing page.

Plus Ten young people
$1,000
USD · 10 places · $100 each for a year

A classroom-sized group, a year of Stardust Plus each, and a report you can put in front of your board.

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Most sponsors A cohort of fifty
$5,000
USD · 50 places · $100 each for a year

Enough to run a country programme, or to name a Stardust Challenge category as its sponsor.

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Plus One hundred places
$10,000
USD · 100 places · $100 each for a year

What Club for the Future funded. It reached young people on four continents and is still being reported on.

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Pathway Ten Pathway places
$10,000
USD · 10 places · $1,000 each for a year

The mentored tier — for a sponsor who wants depth with a small number of young people rather than reach.

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Any number works — these are the shapes sponsors usually ask for, not a menu. Multi-year commitments and named Stardust Challenge categories are both possible.

This is not theoretical

Club for the Future, Blue Origin's foundation, funded USD 10,000 of Stardust. It paid for the platform these young people learn on, a booth at IAC in Australia, sessions with Indigenous youth at Anangokaa, school visits in Japan and Canada, and representation at the Osaka World Expo — and it signed an Egyptian school board with more than 30,000 students onto Odyssey. Their programme report is a live page that updates itself; nobody assembles it by hand, which is the only reason it is honest.

Talk to us

Tell us roughly what you have in mind. A person replies — usually within two working days — and nothing is committed until you have a written proposal.

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Questions sponsors actually ask

Do the young people know who paid?

No, and that is deliberate. A young person should never carry the sense that their place was somebody's charity. We name sponsors publicly and in reports; we do not name them to the recipient.

What if places go unawarded?

The report shows funded, awarded and remaining as separate numbers, and we never add them together. Unawarded places stay yours — they roll on until they are used.

Can we fund a specific country or group?

Usually yes. Say so and we will tell you honestly whether we have the reach to spend it there, rather than take the money and hope.

Can we sponsor something other than places?

Yes — the Stardust Challenge has eight categories open to naming, and schools certification, event travel and equipment are all fundable. Tell us what you want to achieve and we will propose the shape.