Is any teams still awaiting for a grant result before ?

[Siri]

Originally Posted by xitaqua

Siri,

Do you know what happen if payment is not made by December 7th ?

Cheers,
Mark.

As others said, extensions can be approved. For things like major FIRST grants, a lot of it happens above the team level. FIRST usually expects some sort of clear team request though, like the email. There may be a bit more pressure on teams who are at all able to pay beforehand (I doubt FIRST wants to track you down if you don't get the grant), but overall it seems they're quite understanding.

Even for teams not waiting on major FIRST-related grants, extensions are available case-by-case. The standard practice is to contact your Senior Mentor (or Regional Director) for help--well before the deadline!--they try to help with resources and, if appropriate, can help with extensions. There are probably other ways to do extensions as well, this just seems to be most common.

Also, at least in MAR (Mid-Atlantic NJ/DE/east PA), teams have additional need-based grant opportunities through the MAR board. I suspect FiM (Michigan) does this as well?

[Akash Rastogi]

I just checked in with FIRST, they expect to hear from Boeing today.

[xitaqua]

Milken Knights (SoCal) has been approved for FIRST@Boeing Grant.

Cheers,
Mark.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Check with your Boeing mentors as the grant notifications should have gone out today. The Boeing mentor needs to reply back & accept the grant for it to be official.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Check with your Boeing mentors as the grant notifications should have gone out today. The Boeing mentor needs to reply back & accept the grant for it to be official.

Got our notification today. Thanks a ton for your help Ryan and a huge thank you to Boeing!

[xitaqua]

The news is trickling down so teams will hear one way or another....some teams have not heard it yet if they got the grant or not........

Cheers,
Mark.

[SenorZ]

Everything is down to the wire... Just heard yesterday we got an FRC Team Support Grant, and today Boeing made announcement. Not quite 11th hour, but close.

[dcarr]

Boeing was supposedly announcing grant results today, but we didn't get an email stating the outcome either way. Ended up paying registration from our account so it would be on time, hopefully we do get Boeing's support and the extra can just get returned to us.

[MichaelBick]

Team 1836: The Milken Knights would like to thank Boeing for their generous support of our program.

[Siri]

Team 1640, Sab-BOT-age, is very grateful and excited to receive Boeing and UTC Sikorsky support for the 2013 season!

Originally Posted by dcarr

Boeing was supposedly announcing grant results today, but we didn't get an email stating the outcome either way. Ended up paying registration from our account so it would be on time, hopefully we do get Boeing's support and the extra can just get returned to us.

Just to make sure, you know notification goes to your Boeing mentor point of contact (not your TIMS main contact), right? I hope you hear soon! FIRST was very convenient about refunding our payment last time when we were in a similar situation.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Siri

Just to make sure, you know notification goes to your Boeing mentor point of contact (not your TIMS main contact), right? I hope you hear soon! FIRST was very convenient about refunding our payment last time when we were in a similar situation.

Yep! One of our Boeing mentors has been keeping us updated.

[xitaqua]

Yup there are a few teams that are still on the balance.

I am having a meeting today on a telecom with the few of teams that got rejected and that does not have enough money to compete.....

Next week I am having a telecom with teams that wish to build a demo robot instead of a competition robot.

Originally Posted by dcarr

Boeing was supposedly announcing grant results today, but we didn't get an email stating the outcome either way. Ended up paying registration from our account so it would be on time, hopefully we do get Boeing's support and the extra can just get returned to us.

[xitaqua]

Breaking news, just now:

School/Team Name: Killa-Byte Cubs
Team Number: 3408
Got a Boeing grant !.

Cheers,
Mark - Virtual Mentor !

[dcarr]

3309 as well! News just came in 15 minutes ago. Thank you Boeing for your support!

[Akash Rastogi]

Did the funds get credited to your TIMS account yet? It did not show up for us yet.