A ? about NASA grants

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally Posted by VROGY

Where is the NASA website where you can sign up for the grant? I've searched.. and I didn't find it...

link

[VROGY]

Originally Posted by Redhead Jokes

link

thanks!

[Allison K]

Originally Posted by Mr. Van

I believe that a team is permanently associated with a High School or a group of schools. Not a sponsor, not a coach, etc.

If a team does not enter for a year, its number is not re-assigned, nor should it be. If a team changes High Schools, or becomes part of or is no longer part of a collective of schools, then it would be a new rookie team.

Our "team" started as part of a 5 school group, which disbanded and formed several new "rookie" teams the following year, each with new sponsors, new coaches and new students.

In the end, FIRST really has the bottom-line say on this. New number = rookie team.

-Mr. Van
Robo-Dox

I've been wondering about this for awhile. My team this year got a number (1313), but we could never raise the full registration fee so we had to drop out and wait for 2005. However by next season, we will have built two robots, run one competition, attended at least two competitions, run a summer science education program for middle school students, and done wokshops for all of our members, even though we will have never participated in FIRST. Does this make us a rookie team or not? If we are a rookie team we will be one veeery experienced one, which means I'm not sure it's fair if we compete against other rookies for Rookie All Star, but if we are not a rookie then we never get the chance to qualify for nationals with rookie all star. On the other hand, all the rookies before the 2004 season never got the chance to qualify by Rookie All Star either. Plus, since funding is our biggest issue (In fact we have everything but a registration fee) we could really use some of the funding options available only for rookies. I don't know what's fair. Any Ideas.

Allison

[Eric Bareiss]

I would say that yes you are aboslutely still a rookie. Consider yourself "red-shirted"; just because you practice with the team doesn't mean you played.

Besides being a technical rookie, there is a lot that changes when you are actually competing. You still never actually competed, you never got the chance to be involved in the competition. There are some teams who are "rookies" but have dozens of mentors that have years of FIRST experience.

Being a rookie is all about your team number.