2008 NASA Grant Application process now open

[dlavery]

Applications for the 2008 NASA FRC Sponsorship grants are now available through the NASA Robotics Alliance Project web page.

As has been true in previous years, the majority of the available grants have been allocated for rookie and second-year teams. However, a number of grants are available for veteran teams that may be attending some of the NASA-sponsored regionals. Please refer to the descriptions on the grant application page to see if your team qualifies to apply for a grant.

To avoid any problems with filiing the grant application, PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY! Note that submitting an application for a NASA FRC Sponsorship grant will register your team for the grant application process only. It will NOT register your team with FIRST - the team must complete that step separately.

-dave

[sanddrag]

I am quite excited to see NASA's gracious sponsorship for FRC for yet another year. I do have a couple questions:

Is a veteran team required to register for the event they plan to submit a grant application for?

If a team applies for a grant and has not registered for the event specific to the grant, can the grant still be awarded? If so, how does registration work if the event is full when the grant is awarded?

Thanks.

[vivek16]

When does the registration end?

thanks, vivek

[Beth Sweet]

From the site

"Applications will be accepted between Monday, 1 October 2007 and Wednesday, 31 October 2007. Applications submitted after 23:59:59 HST the day of the deadline will not be considered."

[vivek16]

Ah. Thank you

-vivek

[robosteve]

Does anyone know if NASA ever does grants to help start Vex teams at schools? We want to do FRC, but our school isn't sure if we can and thinks it costs too much. Our teacher thinks if we do Vex for a year or two than the school will let us do FRC, once we prove we can do it.

We're doing Vex anyway, but a grant would be nice to.
thought it might be worth asking.

[chris31]

Originally Posted by robosteve

Does anyone know if NASA ever does grants to help start Vex teams at schools? We want to do FRC, but our school isn't sure if we can and thinks it costs too much. Our teacher thinks if we do Vex for a year or two than the school will let us do FRC, once we prove we can do it.

We're doing Vex anyway, but a grant would be nice to.
thought it might be worth asking.

I dont think they do grants for Vex because of the cost difference. It is much less expensive to run a Vex team than it is to run a FRC team.