[EricH]

Originally Posted by alextound

As chief complainer of this thread[...] But for all of the complainers (and myself) I think (at least for me) an updated message would more than suffice to quench our complaints.

Just for your reference: You're the only one complaining publicly. (Or maybe I should put it another way: whining publicly.) Yes, there are others commenting on the lateness. But it's more on the order of, "Guess we have to wait a bit more" instead of "Why don't we have an update yet? Huh? Huh? Huh? Why not? Huh? Huh? Huh? Why don't they update the website? Huh? Huh? Huh? When's the info coming? Huh? Huh? Huh?"

Also the grant money is a HUGE deal for almost any team, except for the elite top 10% who may have enough sponsors in other places.

That's a whole 'nother debate. I don't know of a SINGLE team that would turn down a NASA Grant they were eligible for, applied for, and were awarded. Now, it might not be as big a deal for some teams, true, but for most if not all, $5K in a lump sum isn't bad at all.

The "elite top 10%" part of that statement is, however, making a large assumption about those teams, and other teams. My team isn't elite by any stretch of the imagination, ours included, but we get by just fine without having had a NASA Grant in quite some time (not that we'd EVER pass up the opportunity if we thought we were eligible)--see "constantly coming up with new ways to raise money". I would also guess that some teams you might consider "elite" have a much smaller budget (relative to their expenses) than you might think.