[Chris is me]

If you've got the luxury of free time between now and Kickoff, I'd encourage you to spend a few minutes to write NASA a letter thanking them for their contribution to your team.

If you've been a "NASA team" all along, and have relied on their support to get you to your first event with enough pocket change to build a robot, or have gotten enough support to go to a second regional or Championship, or even didn't quite raise that $6000 you're supposed to in order to get the grant, think of all of the kids on your team, and all of the kids on the team in the past while you were still kept afloat by NASA. How many of those kids went on to pursue engineering? I can't even count the number of students I know personally whom have been inspired because of NASA's financial contribution to their FIRST Robotics teams on two hands, and that's only two teams. If I tried to extrapolate that number to the hundreds of teams they award grants to, I'd be overwhelmed. NASA is truly inspiring.

The least you could do, really, is write them a note thanking them profusely. They're one of the reasons FIRST is what it is today.