Purdue 2005

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Matt Adams

Team 461 has all of it's engineering support in the form of undergraduate engineering students that attend Purdue University. There's been some lively discussion among our team about attending the regional which our Univeristy (and an independent group of students) is sponsoring. The cost savings would be enormous, and though we're not hurting terribly for money, every team would love to save 20 to 30% of their budget if possible.

Matt-

Between the team grants we will issue, the direct event support funding, and the NASA engineering support dedicated to the event, we have committed over $300,000 of NASA funds to support the Lafayette regional competition in 2005. Based on this, we (and FIRST) definitely consider this one of the "NASA-sponsored events" for next year. So if anyone gives your team a hard time about competing at the regional, tell them it is a NASA event and to come talk to me. I will set them straight.

-dave