Boeing Grant Applications Begin Monday

[Rick TYler]

Is Boeing doing grants for FTC?

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

Is Boeing doing grants for FTC?

These grants are only for FRC and cover registration and the kit of parts. I'm not sure if Boeing has provided other grants in the past as I just started working there a few months ago.

[purduephotog]

If someone from Boeing would PM me with some details I would like to provide what Boeing does to our Senior Leadership team- to give them an idea as to what our competitors believe in funding.

Who knows- maybe competition will help.

[xitaqua]

Hello purduephotog,

Take a look at Boeing Press Release to figure out what they do in regards to funding for FIRST Robotics , that you can take to your senior leadership :

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/...90227c_nr.html

Cheers,
Marcos.

[Andrew Schuetze]

I would presume that if Boeing intends to award 100 plus grants this year and that they don't likely have 100 plus facilities near FRC teams that a location can submit and may be awarded more than one grant.

Does anybody have knowledge of how many grants were awarded by a Boeing facility in their area last year? I ask because it appears that we may have a couple of teams attempting to get the local facility to submit grants. I want to verify that multiple awards can be made in an area/facility.

Thanks,

APS

[rsisk]

The grants are not given by local Boeing facilities, they go to a centralized team that review all the grants and allocate them based on the application, not which facility the Boeing mentor works for. At least that is how I understand how it works.

[Andrew Schuetze]

Originally Posted by rsisk

The grants are not given by local Boeing facilities, they go to a centralized team that review all the grants and allocate them based on the application, not which facility the Boeing mentor works for. At least that is how I understand how it works.

That is my understanding as well but I was wondering if two or more applications came in from one local facility if that would have any effect on the decision to award the grants. Having mentors support two or more teams increases the odds of one of them being funded but might be seen as diluting each application.

I'd like to hear from folks if last year a local facility had mentors who successfully applied for grants in support of two or more teams. Is there a listing of who received awards last year. I could do 10 minutes of research and settle this matter for myself if there is. So does anybody know of such a listing?

Thanks,

APS

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze

That is my understanding as well but I was wondering if two or more applications came in from one local facility if that would have any effect on the decision to award the grants. Having mentors support two or more teams increases the odds of one of them being funded but might be seen as diluting each application.

I'd like to hear from folks if last year a local facility had mentors who successfully applied for grants in support of two or more teams. Is there a listing of who received awards last year. I could do 10 minutes of research and settle this matter for myself if there is. So does anybody know of such a listing?

Thanks,

APS

Multiple grants can be awarded from one Boeing site and as long as the individual mentors applying for the grants are heavily involved with each team, there shouldn't be any worry about diluting a team's chance for a grant.

[rsisk]

Just found out yesterday that our Boeing Grant came through for the second year in a row.... Thank you Boeing!

[Andrew Schuetze]

Is there a public listing somewhere? I am hoping that up to three or four teams receive Boeing grants this year here in San Antonio.

Congrats on you award

[rsisk]

We found out via an email from FIRST that our registration fee had been paid.

I haven't seen any public site yet announcing the grants.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by rsisk

We found out via an email from FIRST that our registration fee had been paid.

I haven't seen any public site yet announcing the grants.

I believe this is the way team mentors are being notified about the grants. I received a notification last Wednesday, so make sure your mentors have checked their e-mails recently as it was a Holiday weekend.

[jsasaki]

We received our boeing grant last week which paid off our Hawaii Regional entrance fee and our KOP. Thanks Boeing

[rsisk]

Thank you to Boeing for 2010 grant

FRC2493 Team Robokong
FRC39, The 39th Aero Squadron
FRC357
FRC488
FRC1323, MadTown Robotics
FRC365
FRC 842 Falcon Robotics
FRC2002
FRC2439

Just updating the list