School Sponsorship Program

Battery Quest

Student-Powered Battery Recycling Drives

Supporting brands sponsor. Students and families participate. The community wins. Battery Quest helps schools collect used household batteries while putting sponsor brands in front of thousands of students, families, friends, and local community touchpoints.

Why Battery Quest Works

School drives. Family reach. Sponsor visibility.

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Recover more. Battery Quest helps keep household batteries out of landfills and moves valuable materials toward responsible recycling.
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One sponsored school can put branded collection boxes into hundreds of student homes, creating repeated family awareness.
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Sponsors can show up at school, at home, and at drop-off, turning a recycling drive into local goodwill and community visibility.
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Program Overview

What is Battery Quest?

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Battery Quest turns school recycling into sponsor visibility at school, at home, and at drop-off.

Student-powered reach: students take branded ResQ collection boxes home, giving sponsors repeated exposure with students, families, and the people around them while batteries are collected.
School-based visibility: sponsor branding appears on boxes, posters, flyers, and collection areas where students, parents, teachers, and staff see the campaign.
Host-location traffic: sponsors can host school collection bins at their own location when they want family entertainment traffic, repeat drop-offs, and more in-person touchpoints.
Flexible drive lengths: sponsors can support 90-day, 180-day, or full-year Battery Quest drives depending on their outreach goals, season, and budget.
Built for youth and family-facing brands: colleges, trade schools, family entertainment venues, healthcare groups, local services, and community partners can all reach students and their households in a positive way.
ResQ handles the program: we support setup, school coordination, presentations, collection tracking, recycling logistics, recognition, and impact reporting.
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In-home brand exposure The box becomes a daily reminder in the home while families collect used household batteries.
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School-hosted collection Branded bins and posters create a visible recycling hub inside the school.
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A campaign students remember Battery Quest gives schools a fun, practical way to connect recycling, STEM, and community impact.
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More schools, more reach Sponsors can expand from one school to a nearby school cluster, increasing student visibility, household impressions, and community presence.
Sponsor Value
Your brand reaches students, families, friends, teachers, and local households through take-home boxes, school materials, collection bins, and campaign reporting.
Choose Your Visibility
Place bins at the school for daily visibility or at your location when you want family drop-off traffic and repeat community touchpoints.
School Benefit
Schools get a free, sponsor-funded sustainability drive that engages students on campus and continues inside participating homes.
Who Wins

Make a Real Impact

Sponsors

Youth & Family-Facing Brands

  • Reach students and families through a school recycling drive that travels from the classroom into the home.
  • Build awareness with students, parents, teachers, school staff, and connected households through branded boxes, posters, flyers, and bin displays.
  • Ideal for colleges, trade schools, family entertainment venues, healthcare groups, local services, and community brands that want positive visibility with youth and families.
  • Choose school-hosted collection for daily campus visibility or sponsor-hosted bins when you want family drop-off traffic at your location.
  • Add nearby schools to expand student reach, household impressions, and community presence around your campus, venue, or service area.
Schools

Schools & Students

  • Zero cost to participate, with sponsored boxes, bins, posters, flyers, and program support.
  • Flexible 90-day, 180-day, or full-year drives that fit the school calendar without adding a heavy lift for staff.
  • Hands-on STEM, sustainability, and recycling education through presentations, collection tracking, and optional ResQ Crew activities.
  • Students bring the mission home, helping families collect used household batteries and return them to school or a sponsor-hosted drop-off location responsibly.
Planet

For the Earth

  • Diverts household batteries from landfill and helps recover valuable reusable materials locally.
  • Creates measurable impact through pounds collected, responsible recycling activity, and student-led household participation.
  • Helps schools turn everyday waste into a practical lesson about resource recovery, stewardship, and community action.
  • Gives families a simple way to participate in responsible recycling through a program their school already supports.

What Schools Are Saying

Pilot Program Spotlight

Last Year's Pilot Showed What Battery Quest Can Become.

2025-2026 Pilot School

Paideia Academies Battery Quest

Location: South Phoenix, AZ
Status: Pilot Completed

Paideia Academies helped prove the model: students collected at home, the school hosted the collection point, and families had a simple way to keep batteries out of the landfill. Now Battery Quest is ready for sponsors, colleges, and community partners to reach more students, more households, and more school communities through local battery recycling.

See the Paideia Pilot ->

Paideia is the proof point. The next wave is built for school-based sponsor visibility or host-location traffic.

Battery Quest is moving from pilot to sponsor-powered expansion. Students collect everyday alkaline batteries at home, schools compete, and sponsors reach both the student body and the families behind them. Choose branded school-based bins for community awareness, or host-location bins when you want student and family drop-off traffic.
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Spots are limited. Let's talk and get your Battery Quest started today.
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Battery Quest FAQ

Common Questions

Battery Quest helps brands sponsor school recycling drives that reach students, families, friends, teachers, and local households through branded take-home boxes, school materials, and collection bins.

What is Battery Quest?

Battery Quest is a sponsor-funded school recycling drive powered by ResQ Batteries. Students receive branded take-home collection boxes, families collect used household batteries, and the materials are returned through a school-hosted or sponsor-hosted collection bin.

Who is Battery Quest designed for?

Battery Quest is built for brands that want positive access to students, families, and school communities. That can include community colleges, trade schools, family entertainment venues, healthcare groups, youth programs, local services, restaurants, retail brands, and community-minded businesses.

How does the take-home box create sponsor visibility?

Students bring a branded ResQ collection box home and use it with their family to collect approved household batteries. That means the sponsor's brand is not only seen at school, but also inside the home where parents, siblings, friends, and extended family can interact with the campaign.

Where are the collection bins placed?

Sponsors can choose the visibility path that fits their goal. School-hosted bins create daily visibility with students, parents, teachers, and staff. Sponsor-hosted bins bring families to the sponsor's business, campus, venue, or community location for battery drop-off.

Why would a family entertainment venue sponsor Battery Quest?

Family entertainment venues benefit because Battery Quest gives them a reason to connect with local schools and families in a positive way. When bins are hosted at the venue, student and family drop-offs can create repeat visits, brand familiarity, and community goodwill.

Why would a college or trade school sponsor Battery Quest?

Colleges, trade schools, and vocational programs can use Battery Quest to build early awareness with future students and their families. The sponsor brand appears inside the school, travels home with students, and can expand across feeder-school communities near the campus.

What types of batteries are collected?

Battery Quest focuses on common household batteries such as AA, AAA, C, D, and 9V batteries. Program materials explain what belongs in the box and how families can participate safely.

Can Battery Quest include e-waste too?

Yes, when approved as part of the drive. Some campaigns may include a separate e-waste collection option for small electronics, cords, chargers, headphones, or similar approved items. Battery and e-waste collection rules are clearly labeled so students and families know what to bring.

Is Battery Quest free for schools?

Yes. Battery Quest is designed to be free for participating schools, students, staff, and families. Sponsors fund the boxes, bins, posters, flyers, program support, recycling coordination, and impact reporting.

How does sponsorship work?

Sponsors fund a Battery Quest drive for one school or a cluster of schools. In return, they receive visibility through branded take-home boxes, school posters, collection bins, flyers, presentations, campaign updates, and impact reporting.

How long does a Battery Quest drive run?

Sponsors can choose from 90-day, 180-day, or full-year Battery Quest drives. Shorter drives create focused campaign visibility, while longer drives add more student touchpoints, ResQ Crew activities, collection moments, and repeated sponsor exposure.

Can a sponsor support multiple schools?

Yes. Sponsors can support one school or expand into a nearby school cluster. Multi-school sponsorship helps increase student reach, household exposure, family impressions, and community presence around a campus, venue, business, or service area.

Is there a discount for adding more schools?

Yes. Multi-school Battery Quest packages can include a 20% discount on each additional school after the first school. This makes it easier for sponsors to expand reach across 2, 4, 6, or more nearby schools.

What does ResQ Batteries handle?

ResQ supports school coordination, branded collection materials, launch presentations, ResQ Crew activities when included, collection tracking, recycling logistics, recognition, and sponsor impact reporting. Sponsors get the visibility and community connection without having to manage the day-to-day program.

Can sponsors get category exclusivity?

Category exclusivity may be available within a defined local radius or school cluster. This helps protect the sponsor's position as the featured partner in their category for that Battery Quest campaign area.

How do we get started?

The first step is to connect with ResQ Batteries, choose the right drive length, decide whether bins should be school-hosted or sponsor-hosted, identify the school or school cluster, and align on timing, branding, and goals. From there, ResQ coordinates the launch and manages the program details.

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