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Re: NASA grant question

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Originally Posted by waialua359 View Post
However, you should develop a backup plan to come up with the registration fee in case you dont get it and have already started up a team.
This, this, this. Garnet Squadron didn't get selected for the NASA Grant initially in the fall of 2013--and the list came out the Monday before the payment deadline.

I have taken robot arms swinging wide to the chin. I have stood on FIRST fields submerged in four inches of water. I have chased down robots in autonomous in a room of new computers. I have seen a robot not move at all in the elimination rounds. That experience was scarier than all of them.

Between the FRC Rookie Grant and other funding, we scraped the money together around dinnertime the night before the payment deadline. But I never want to be in that position again. Get your money, get some mentors.
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2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
2014-2016: FRC 4901 (Garnet Squadron) - Co-Founder and Head Bot Coach - Orlando '14, SCRIW '16
2017-: FRC 5402 (Iron Kings) - Mentor

94 events (more than will fit in a ChiefDelphi signature), 14 seasons, over 61,000 miles, and still on a mission from Bob.

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