New Michigan Grants for FRC

[Mike Martus]

Has anyone heard about the New FRC grants for MI to start teams and pay coaches a $1500 stipend??

[Clinton Bolinger]

Yes.

Grant Announcement: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/md...s_431002_7.pdf

Grant Details: http://www.techplan.org/downloads/pd...4_105933_3.pdf

-Clinton-

[AdamHeard]

$3,000,000 is a nice amount of money. Awesome!

[Lil' Lavery]

An interesting bullet point:

5. If a FIRST Robotics team qualifies for state, national, or world competitions, the team will participate in the competition.

[JB987]

Wow! Guess I never should have left Michigan 35 years ago...except I never would have been able help start The High Rollers Seriously though, kudos to those who helped convince their legislature of the benefits of supporting the FIRST mission. Hopefully the rest of us can use this as precedent for our state's movers and shakers in our efforts to "do the right thing".

[AllenGregoryIV]

That's amazing, will more FiM teams go out of state this year since they don't have to pay their initial registration fee?

[waialua359]

That is awesome news and glad to see you folks pave the way for hopefully the rest of us!

Our state is currently in legislation about paying stipends to Middle School Academic program coaches.
That would qualify a lot of VEX programs in our State, including our school where we are a High/Intermediate.

[JB987]

Originally Posted by waialua359

That is awesome news and glad to see you folks pave the way for hopefully the rest of us!

Our state is currently in legislation about paying stipends to Middle School Academic program coaches.
That would qualify a lot of VEX programs in our State, including our school where we are a High/Intermediate.

Great news for southern Nevada teams regarding stipends, Glenn. We finally got our District (5th largest in the country) to offer $746 per semester to high school robotics advisers and $486 for middle school advisers per semester. We fought this battle for many years. Just goes to show you that persistence in life can pay off! Now if we can just get our legislators to follow the Michigan model...

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by JB987

Great news for southern Nevada teams regarding stipends, Glenn. We finally got our District (5th largest in the country) to offer $746 per semester to high school robotics advisers and $486 for middle school advisers per semester. We fought this battle for many years. Just goes to show you that persistence in life can pay off! Now if we can just get our legislators to follow the Michigan model...

That's awesome too!
Its about time academic advisors/coaches got paid something for all that they do!

[Racer26]

WOW!

Looking at the details:

New teams can get $7,500.
Existing teams can get $5,000.

ALL teams that qualify for state, national, or world championships can get an entry fee.

For the District grants, the team must show 50% of the grant value in local sponsorship from 3rd parties (if I'm understanding this right)

There were 203 MI teams in 2013. 64 Qualified for MICMP, and 35 MI teams competed at CMP.

35 x $5000 (CMP Registration) = $175,000
64 x $4000 (MICMP Registration) = $256,000
203 x $5000 (District Registration) = $1,015,000

Total cost per season if it were to pay for EVERY veteran MI Team's District/MICMP/CMP registrations? $1,446,000.

This grant is supposed to last 3 years. It won't be paying for everyone's initial $5,000 registration, but it very well might pay for state and world championship entry fees for most of the MI teams each year.

Sweet deal. Way to go MI.

[Clinton Bolinger]

Just a reminder that the Grant Applications are available today via the MEGS+.

https://megs.mde.state.mi.us/megs/login.asp

There should be at least one person in every school district in Michigan that should have access.

Enjoy!

-Clinton-

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

That's amazing, will more FiM teams go out of state this year since they don't have to pay their initial registration fee?

Not only will they not have to pay their initial registration fee, it seems like they won't have to pay any registration fee.

4. State, National, and World Competition Grants
The MDE will provide funding for reasonable expenses for qualifying teams to participate in State, National, or World FIRST Robotics Competitions.