2005 NASA Grant Recipients Released

[Andy Grady]

Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison

Well gee shucks golly!
I heard that that 71 team gets a dump truck full of $20 bills every time they get a medal. I heard that team 461 lied on their application and said they were a second year team and those gosh darn silly NASA people didn't check. I heard that Baxter 16 team wanted to cheat a few rookies out of some money. I always did know those 93 Apple folks were a bunch of cheaters.

I also heard that this thread is pretty disrespectful, rude, inconsiderate, misguided, and proves, truly, the outstanding ignorance that abounds on these message boards when a controversial issue comes up.

While I feel that its important that people maybe think a little and check facts before making posts...I also feel that demeaning or talking down to those who made the mistakes isn't appropriate. Please everyone...including those on both sides of the line...use some respect for others opinions.

I'm not trying to single your post out Amanda, I would have PMed you had it been just you involved, but I've just about heard enough from everyone on this subject for the day.

Sorry

-Andy Grady

[Amanda Morrison]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

While I feel that its important that people maybe think a little and check facts before making posts...I also feel that demeaning or talking down to those who made the mistakes isn't appropriate. Please everyone...including those on both sides of the line...use some respect for others opinions.

I'm not trying to single your post out Amanda, I would have PMed you had it been just you involved, but I've just about heard enough from everyone on this subject for the day.

Sorry

-Andy Grady

Andy,

I didn't post what I did because any certain team was involved, or because of any particular person that replied. I stand by what I said - this thread, and a lot of the replies involved, are indeed disrespectful, rude, inconsiderate, and misguided. Moreover, I have made my share of ignorant posts on CD, and because of being corrected I certainly learned my lesson.

Any team singled out - especially these seven - should certainly feel defensive. I know I would, should I be publicly reminded of how much money is in my bank account. The basis on which the teams are being judged is pretty ridiculous.
Amanda

p.s. - don't say 'sorry'. Even if someone doesn't agree, you should never been sorry for your opinion (that goes for everyone on ChiefDelphi or otherwise).

/edit - I'll rely on someone else to clarify, and I'll now take the role of the ignorant FIRSTer. I believe NASA allows a set amount for each regional's grants. And I believe that if rookies or underfunded teams in their first or second year had applied for the Boilermaker Regional, they would have gotten funding.

[Stephen Kowski]

Congratulations to those who made it!

It is unfortunate that these Grants will take several teams to an additional events when teams that applied like 1368 (Countryside High, Clearwater, FL) will fall through the cracks this year and not be able to attend even one event. How sad....I feel bad for them.

Good Luck everyone this year!

[Jay H 237]

I just want to say congratulations to all the teams that received the grants.


Second,

Originally Posted by 04-05 NASA Sponsorship Awards

Please note that NASA sponsorships are conditional upon an individual team being registered and confirmed at the specific event for which the sponsorship applies. Sponsorships are NOT transferrable to other teams or other events

(I took this from the link in Amanda's first post in this thread.)

The truth is there aren't enough grants to go around for all the teams. Also some teams, veteran or not, may not have applied for them. NASA first made sure the teams that applied met their elegibility requirements and then had to decide which teams would get them. I'm sure they had some tough decisions to make and no matter what they did they could NOT make EVERYONE happy.

Jason

[fred]

Originally Posted by Stephen Kowski

Congratulations to those who made it!

It is unfortunate that these Grants will take several teams to an additional events when teams that applied like 1368 (Countryside High, Clearwater, FL) will fall through the cracks this year and not be able to attend even one event. How sad....I feel bad for them.

Good Luck everyone this year!

I really like NASA a lot and I'm sure that everyone on Team 341 feels the same way after we were able to make it to Chesapeake a couple of years ago with the help of a generous NASA grant.

However, I do feel really sorry for the members of Team 1368 who apparently won't be going to a single official event this year. I feel that when used properly, threads like this can be quite important. Without constructive criticism, who knows where we would be in the world today?

Things like Team 1368's situation should be brought to NASA's attention so that teams like this can receive some more funding.