Our rookie Santa Monica #1115 got their NASA grant!

Our 2nd rookies' school, Woodbridge High Irvine CA, doesn't believe in them, and didn't apply for the NASA grant. :p They raised $10,000 on their own.

Peninsula High Palos Verdes, a brand new school all on it's own this year, didn't get a rookie team off the ground this year, but will be joining our team!


Beach Bots rookie South High Torrance CA # 1197 got their grant. Finally an "in" on the 5 Torrance high schools.

:D

Just to supply a new aspect to all this joyful celebration of getting money, my team didn"t get the grant we applied for, so anyone know where in the Georgia area I could find my team about 7-8 grand?

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I heard of 2 CA teams who didn't get their grant. :(

Congratulations to all the teams that did get the grant. Use the money wisely, and go for the gold.

If your team did not receive the grant, I'm sorry. I wish all teams success in the upcoming season.

hmmm, anyone else see that out of 122 teams signed up for the grant, only 18 (or about 14%) had team numbers which were below 600? I find it great that NASA's supporting so many mainly first-year and second-year teams.

I also find it suprising that 122 * $5,000 = $610,000. When a government agency gives away almost two thirds of a million dollars in support of FIRST teams, you know you're involved in a good program.

Anyways, congradulations to all the winners, and I hope all the teams that weren't fortunate to have this boost of support try again next year.

*puzzled*

The NASA grants I'm talking about are only for first and second year teams.

I was told rookie teams all had 4 digit numbers, but that may not be true? Are all 2nd year teams the ones with 3 digit numbers?

SuperDanman,
The grants are actually $6,000 apiece.

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thank god my team (639) got the grant, without it we would not be participating this year. we are located in a small, crappy, sport oriented community and none of the 3 colleges will give us money

The nasa site said that the grant covers registration fees for one nasa-area regional ($4000) as well as $1000 in transportation fees, so I figured it would bring the grant to a total of $5000. Did I misread the grant information?

My understanding of the registration process tells me that the registration fee is assumed to be $5000.00, not $4000.00. You see, each team pays a $5000.00 registration fee for the first competition they sign up for, and $4000.00 for each additional competition. Alot of teams that won the grant will only be attending the regional wherein the grant is valid, and possibly the nationals. The registration fee + the $1000.00 transport fee brings you to $6000.00.

yeah, I was assuming since the grant said nothign about specifically being for the first registration, I assumed it was for regionals besides the first one. Oh well, thats a bit better anyways.