BAE Grant

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by RogerR

Has anyone found the list mentioned above? The only one I've found is for last years teams.

It's past early December, and our emails have gone unanswered so far. We're assuming the worst, but would like to know for sure.

Same here. I emailed FIRST to see if they had the list or could confirm whether we were on the list or not. I didn't receive a response from them.

[Kettering]

I emailed BAE's FIRST contact person on Monday and this is what I got back:

"There will not be another announcement of funding from your team’s supporting sector for the remainder of the year. Initial funding allocations went out two weeks ago, and another round may be announced in the January timeframe. "

I'm not even sure what that means. I'm thinking that they took care of SRT/Rookie grants first so they can get registered, get their KoPs, etc. and then in January, the rest of the funds will be given to veteran teams. That's just my opinion, not an official answer.

Anyone else get a response?

[TD78]

As far as I know, the teams receiving this grant should have found out by now. My team received confirmation a few weeks ago we were receiving a grant and for how much. Last time I checked, while the funds hadn't been officially been applied to our account in TIMS, there was a note in there that it will be soon. Not sure if BAE is still figuring out stuff on their end.

[Wayne Doenges]

We received confirmation (with amount) last month.
I hope everyone who applied gets funded by BAE.

[Gary Dillard]

We just got notification yesterday that we would not be receiving the BAE Systems grant that we applied for last September. It ended with "...hope your FRC team has secured other sources of funding for a successful remainder to the season".

I have mixed emotions about this - I'm not sure this notice is really any better than not hearing at all, which I thought was rather unprofessional. But they've been a good supporter of us and FIRST and I know how things go in a large company trying to get things done so I guess I'm willing to give them a pass and say thanks.

[Mark McLeod]

Think of it as they were desperately searching out all possible sources of grant funding beforte having to tell you that they failed.

There are often other sources of funding that the grant people are trying to bring together and make happen.

Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

We just got notification yesterday that we would not be receiving the BAE Systems grant that we applied for last September. It ended with "...hope your FRC team has secured other sources of funding for a successful remainder to the season".

I have mixed emotions about this - I'm not sure this notice is really any better than not hearing at all, which I thought was rather unprofessional. But they've been a good supporter of us and FIRST and I know how things go in a large company trying to get things done so I guess I'm willing to give them a pass and say thanks.

We got the same thing. We understand their funding needs and still appreciate their support to FIRST, but as a partner of 10 years it was kinda shocking to receive this letter. Oh well, at least they're still helping FIRST teams in the end, and that's what counts.

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

We got the same thing. We understand their funding needs and still appreciate their support to FIRST, but as a partner of 10 years it was kinda shocking to receive this letter. Oh well, at least they're still helping FIRST teams in the end, and that's what counts.

We got a similar BAE not funding email yesterday.
From conversations with other teams, most of the teams in the Texas area got a similar notice today.

BAE Systems has been a great sponsor of FIRST for many years, and sometimes companies go through tough times.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Same notice for us. But since BAE has been shutting doen facilities in Cincy over the last 2 years, it wasn't a surprise. They are supposed to be completely out of Cincy by end of the month.