Pros and Cons of the Championship Event.

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by PhilBot

What if FIRST made a GRANT available to specific regional/championship award winners to use to further the FIRST cause. This would be akin to the rookie NASA grant, but at the other end of the team life cycle.

I'd be all for it, so long as there is an application process at least as strenuous as the NASA grant app. Just giving a grant to anybody who wins one of these awards is essentially adding a cash prize to the award, and I think you'd find that this would lead to some pretty unsavory behavior arising in the award-seeking process. Some teams unfortunately are already pretty cutthroat when it comes to trophies... I can only imagine what happens if you aren't careful adding money into the mix.