Note that the grant awards listed on the
2006 NASA Sponsorship Awards web page include ONLY the "Regional Challenge Grant" and "Program Growth Grant" awards. The "University Space Grant" awards are being listed separately, and will be announced shortly, as soon as the final arrangements with the supporting university programs are completed. So, if your team is in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, or the District of Columbia - the formal announcement regarding your award will be released as soon as we can (hopefully, no later than Monday). Informally, I can let you know that for the University Space Grants we were able to make awards to every qualified team that applied for those grants (some applications were received from teams that did not qualify for the specific USG grants for which they applied, and were thus not awarded).
The conditions under which veteran teams could apply for certain categories of the available grants were clearly spelled out in the grant introduction and application. The cover page explicitly stated how many rookie, second year, and veteran grants were available for each event. So if you read the application, there should be no confusion about how veteran teams were able to qualify for certain grants.
To all the grant awardees, congratulations and we look forward to seeing you at the competition!
-dave