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Our team finalized its submission on Thursday. Since there are still 23 days left until the submission deadline, I (along with a few other veteran mentors) thought it might be a good idea to share some NASA grant writing tips.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2167

Personally, this is the third time I've been involved in this process with two different teams and every time I participate I learn more. Good luck to all applying and THANK YOU NASA for the opportunity to apply for funding.

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terrific resource for the teams. Thanks for taking the time to write and post!

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Your "6th Thing to keep in Mind" is "Say Thank You."
Every year I get this question.
"Who do we thank and where does it get sent?"
Is there contact information included in the application for followup?
Thanks.

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There is the general email box that goes along with question 7a and Dave posted this last year:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...1&postcount=49

Dave, is Dr. Green still the best person to send a thank you to?

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Yes.




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On the grant application, there is a section for year 2 teams only.
If N/A, how have teams got around this. Application cannot be submitted without filling out this section.
Last year, we typed in N/A repeatedly to meet the word/character count, which seemed to be OK as we received the grant.
Doesnt seem to be the case this year.


Thanks.

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If you are a veteran team applying (or rookie as well I believe) after you choose veteran (or rookie) at the start of the application and save, questions 8, 9, and 10 become gray and you cannot fill them in, so you shouldn't need to worry about those fields as a veteran (or rookie).

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that's strange because it didnt happen now twice.
NASA got back to me anyway and its OK for us to do what we mentioned earlier.

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I had a strange thing happen to me as well. When I originally entered data for 1712's entry I could fill in questions 8, 9, and 10. Then, when I came back to the saved data, it was gone, the boxes were grayed out, and I panicked a little (luckily I save a version in word). As it turned out, NASA had adjusted the instructions slightly to state that Rookies AND Veterans could skip ahead to question 11 and didn't need to do 8,9, and 10 (only second year applicants need to complete 8, 9, and 10). So, that little part of the system might still be "glitchy" perhaps? I did this work from a Mac, would that matter at all? Dave, any insight here??? As long as things get worked out it's no biggie, but this should be smooth for as many as possible as the deadline approaches so NASA support doesn't get a lot of these questions.

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We will look into it.

-dave


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Rich,
I did get the same thing also when I went back into the application.
It was now grayed out with no info.
I was also able to submit the application because of this. :)

Glenn

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Since Glenn and I had a similar experience I'm GUESSING that it takes a full "trip" in and out of the system (login, save, logout) before it will recognize whether you are a rookie, second year team, or veteran. This COULD mean that completing all of your information in one "trip" and submitting might cause some of the glitches Glenn and I experienced?

Notice I used the words GUESSING and COULD here. I'm sure Dave will come back with more concrete information soon. In the mean time, one thing is for sure. It doesn't appear that any necessary data can get "lost" and NASA support is helpful to teams. However, I would like to stress to all teams applying that you should definitely heed the strong suggestions to work and save your data separately in a text editor/word processing file.
:)

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Since today is the expected date for hearing from NASA, does anyone know what time they normally come out?

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I believe Dave jokingly/seriously said they had til the end of the day Hawaii time last year to announce the recipients:

2007: Posted to CD 5:24 AM 11/20 (which, without checking, sounds like close to midnight Hawaii time 11/19 to me....)
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=27

2006: Posted to CD 10:08 PM http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...NASA+recipient

2005: Posted to CD 4:27 PM http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...NASA+recipient

So if you don't hear anything by 5:24 AM tomorrow, the sky is falling. :)

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Not until after you chew off most of your fingernails, Greg ;). I'm not 100% sure whether this is a "morning" thing or "by midnight" thing. In fact the application info states "around Nov. 12" which gives NASA some leeway.