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The primary intention of the NASA grants is to help new teams get started
its hard to find a HS AND a corporate sponser AND engineering mentors AND faculty mentors all at the same time to start a new team
the NASA grant pays the registration fee at a NASA sponsored regional ($5000) and it gives you an extra $1000 in cash to be used to build the robot. That is a great headstart for a new team.
If you are on an existing team, and you are already being funded by your sponsor, then you dont really need a NASA grant (and you probabally wont get one if you apply for it)
but if you are an existing team who has lost their sponsor, or lost an important source of funding, then you would qualify for a NASA grant to get you through the rough times.
If your team is looking at the possibility of not being able to come up with the registration fee for a regional then definately apply. Worse thing that can happen is they might say no.
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