2005 NASA Grant Recipients Released

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Vince lau

is there two separate grants? one from NASA and on from FIRST?

There is a $1,000 FIRST grant, that's seperate from the NASA grant, available to both rookie and veteran teams. However, it will not be awarded to a team that has received the NASA grant or any other FIRST grant. See the "FIRST Team Assistance Grant" on this page: http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/grants.htm

Originally Posted by Cory

I can only hope that they recieved it because others didn't apply...

801, 71, 135, 93, 16, 461, 399

These are the only teams under 900 received the NASA grant.

The numbers in bold are teams going to the West Lafayette regional, who received the grant. Entertain the possibility, for a second, that there weren't many teams - let alone many new teams - that applied for the grant, for W. Lafayette regional. Subsequently, the grants were ... granted to the teams who did apply, low numbers and all, so as not to waste the grants and as an incentive, perhaps, for more first and second year teams to apply for the grants next year.

Originally Posted by Kevin Watson

Some grants were given to established teams as an incentive to attend one of the new regionals.

Then why were there hardly any other 'established teams' who received the grant, outside of the West Lafayette regional? There is more than one new regional this year, is there not?

In any case, congrats to both the low and high-numbered teams who did receive the grant.