NASA Grant Winners? [2010-2011]
 

Is the link to this page up yet?

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I keep looking and checking here...

Trying to Help

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Just noted in Bill's Blog... Come back on Nov 29th...

http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2010...sa-grants.html

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i'd been checking and refreshing the page all morning.

Thanks

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That would be the WEEK of the 29th. Which means expect the announcement on December 3rd, and you won't be disappointed if they announce it earlier than then.

Who says I can't be a glass is half full person? :rolleyes:

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Day two of the week of the 29th and nothing yet.

Gonna be a long week......

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Agreed! My heart skipped when I saw the topic of this thread. :o

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T-3 days

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They should just give it to every team who applied ;)

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you can say that again, this depends on whether my team competes or not as all of our other resources are non monetary.

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bleh, the wait is getting harder and harder.. please give us an answer soon nasa.. somehow our team got the ptc grant but we're still a grand short :/ the team members worked there tails off fundraising this year.. the economy is horrible

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Every time I see this thread I suddenly get excited but then my hopes are crushed... GAH NASA! maybe the cookie thing works with NASA too, or do we have to sing a song?

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May I formally request that nobody posts in this thread until the actual information is released?
Same goes with the Game Hint threads :yikes:

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...water game :P

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TIMS says that the payment is due Dec 02, 2010 08:00 PM???

Is that right?

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For your Initial Event Registration.

For all other registered regionals, your payment is due 1/28/11

Link to calender of important dates:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...nt.aspx?id=454

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That is when registration closes. Payment is due 12/3/10. There is no time listed.

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Oops, should I have looked at my own link I posted.

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From Bill's Blog
"NASA grants should be awarded in the next 24 hours! Keep your fingers crossed!" Today on Wednesday, December 1, 2010

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They Just got posted, congratulations to all teams who received a grant!

And thank you NASA and AUTODESK for sponsoring!

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Congrats!

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Thank you NASA! Congrats to all of the other award recipients

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Woot! Everyone on my team is going to be so happy :)

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Wohooooo!!!


Thanks NASA

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Thank ye, o' generous benefactors of nerddom!

Happy to see 3 local teams earn support. :)

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Thank you NASA, this would have been a tight financial year without you.

I am happy to see 2705, the team from the international school of Minnesota (also located in Eden Prairie) received one as well.

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Thanks NASA!

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I'm having a great time looking at the list. Beautiful.

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Thank you NASA!!!!! This just made my day and I'm 3000 miles away!

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Thank you so much NASA!!!!!

3467 and 1519!

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Guys, keep in mind NASA doesn't read this thread. You'll want to send thank you letters.

Now to be a hypocrite, Thanks NASA!

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Thank you NASA! Our team is relieved and very excited! Without the grant, we would have been out for the season! Congrats to all the other winners!!

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What is the best address and contact to send a Thank you to NASA?

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Sending an email to the email attached on the page to thank you would most likely be the best way to thank the people who were involved. The email will get forwarded to whoever was involved with the grant process.

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This was the information that Dave provided for us last year. Perhaps, he can confirm it for this year.

Jane

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Thanks also to AUTODESK.

20 of the grants were sponsored / funded by AUTODESK. They used the NASA Applications and the team requirements are the same.

Note to all selected teams: There are some requirements for you as a grant recipient. Make sure you complete those requirements. The information requested is important to NASA and AUTODESK and FIRST. In your application you agreed to do them. And if you don't, you could lose eligibility for future NASA grants.

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Just to clarify...the veterans listed are the ones who had severe loss of financial support from sponsors, etc. and applied for the "sustainability" grants? Or did I miss something?

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There are two types of awards for "veteran" teams.

Program Growth Grants - if funds are available after the 1st and 2nd year teams are selected.

Sustainability Grants - for teams that have lost major sponsrship and can document the details.

Edited quote from the NASA Application information -

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Thank you NASA! The good folks at NASA who go to bat for FIRST and other engineering programs make a significant difference in the lives of thousands (millions?) of people.

Trying to Help

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We applied for a Program Growth grant. It seems that they had money left over after reviewing all first and second year teams, thankfully.

We could have made a case for a Sustaining Grant as we lost a sponsor, but we thought our situation much more fit the Program Growth intent than the intent of the Sustaining Grant.

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Thanks NASA, Team 1249 really needed the funding this year, now, if we can get off the wait list in Pittsburgh as our second region.

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Yes, that information is still correct.

They don't??!?! :D

-dave


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NASA probably watched you type that. :D

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If you've got the luxury of free time between now and Kickoff, I'd encourage you to spend a few minutes to write NASA a letter thanking them for their contribution to your team.

If you've been a "NASA team" all along, and have relied on their support to get you to your first event with enough pocket change to build a robot, or have gotten enough support to go to a second regional or Championship, or even didn't quite raise that $6000 you're supposed to in order to get the grant, think of all of the kids on your team, and all of the kids on the team in the past while you were still kept afloat by NASA. How many of those kids went on to pursue engineering? I can't even count the number of students I know personally whom have been inspired because of NASA's financial contribution to their FIRST Robotics teams on two hands, and that's only two teams. If I tried to extrapolate that number to the hundreds of teams they award grants to, I'd be overwhelmed. NASA is truly inspiring.

The least you could do, really, is write them a note thanking them profusely. They're one of the reasons FIRST is what it is today.