NATIONAL INSTRUMENT - 2017 GRANT

[crake]

Originally Posted by pribusin

Thanks Chris. Can you post a link to the grant page, please.

Sure - same link as above: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...nLmmw/viewform

[Sam Skoglund]

I know that on the google form it says that grants will be awarded based on a team's "financial need." Does anyone know a range of what amounts might be offered? Our team does not currently know labview very well and is trying to decide if learning it would be worth it to apply for this grant.

[tr6scott]

Has anyone heard from NI?

I searched CD and NI site and forum, and did not find anything.

[marshall]

Originally Posted by tr6scott

Has anyone heard from NI?

I searched CD and NI site and forum, and did not find anything.

We got notified today. Sadly we didn't get the grant but that's ok. We love NI anyway.

[Alpha Beta]

We received our grant notification on Wednesday, November 30th at 8:38 PM central time.

We appreciate the financial assistance. We also love being an NI team and representing what this language can do to help teams at every level of play. Having a roboAmbassador we can call for extra assistance has been a nice bonus too.

As always our students and mentors will be available at the tournaments we attend to help assist others with LabVIEW and control systems trouble shooting.

Thank you National Instruments for selecting us for the honor of wearing the NI logo as we compete this year.

[Tom Line]

Ditto that Aaron. National Instruments has been absolutely invaluable for our team's development. I've never been able to say enough about the way they support FRC and the amount of individual help they are willing to provide if you get in a jam. It's awesome. Over the years I've been asked why we keep using LabVIEW, and my response has always been the same. It's a different method of problem solving and gets the kids thinking in a totally different way. They'll get Java and C++ in school, this is another tool in their work belt.

[waialua359]

Our team got the notification as well about receiving the grant.
As a Labview team since its inception offering during the 2009 season, we are glad to continually receive their support also.

[tr6scott]

Thanks for the responses, almost as soon as I posted that, I received an email "thin envelope" that we didn't make the cut.

Still love the exposure to their hardware and software, that NI support to this program offers to these students.

30 years as a controls engineer in this area, and FIRST is the only time I have used Labview hardware and software on a project.