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Originally Posted by DeepWater
As far as I can tell, probably for contracting reasons, NASA is trying to not play favorites with FIRST. No "Program Growth" grants this year that have historically been FIRST specific, no requirement for grant award winners to submit a Chairman's Award this year, again FIRST specific, etc. This year's NASA grant application seems more generic and open to all the major robotics competitions than I remember in the past.
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At the same time, some of the milestones in this CAN sound pretty FRC-specific...
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Exercise robotics Competitions that utilize Robot weighing over 40 Kilograms and with a volume greater than 0.8 cubic meters
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Require high school complete project with a set of parts with in a set time period of at least 1 month but not to exceed 2 months.
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Exercise robotics Competitions that generate and average of 20 students or more per team
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Develop Competition that will develop skills in computer animation
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The competition season should officially begin no sooner than 1 month after all High Schools have begun their high school year.
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I don't claim to analyze federal government documents any better than the next man, but these milestones (and several others in the linked document) would
seem to greatly limit the chances of BEST, VRC, FTC, NURC, and Botball from winning the CAN (and thus limiting their teams' support to the as-we-can-swing-it basis laid out as before).
Take from this what you will.