Pointers for filling out a NASA grant?

[wendymom]

We are treating our County 4-H office as our school with our agent being our "principal". We are using demographics for the entire county...(we have 10 different schools represented on our team) since anyone in the county is able to join the team. Who knows if it is right or wrong...good luck everyone!!!

[Trying to Help]

Thanks for the pointers and wishes of luck!

Ken - we used the number of team members as you did for the school numbers, and followed your example for the teachers and community mentors numbers. Based on knowing our team members, I estimated on the low-end for the free and reduced lunch percentage. I could be completely wrong however.

WendyMom - we also used our county office and extension educator as school and principal.

We'd been told via an email from NASA that we could leave the school, free/reduced lunch numbers, etc. blank. If you've submitted already, you know this isn't possible. So this afternoon had me adding in "Engineering" as the subject taught for our main contact and "Computer Science" for the alternate.

I confess that I feel just a little bit like I am in the company of giants knowing that both Mechanical Mayhem and Exploding Bacon are submitting for NASA grants.

Thank you again for all your help. Chief Delphi is a wonderful resource!

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[Cory]

Originally Posted by Trying to Help

We'd been told via an email from NASA that we could leave the school, free/reduced lunch numbers, etc. blank. If you've submitted already, you know this isn't possible. So this afternoon had me adding in "Engineering" as the subject taught for our main contact and "Computer Science" for the alternate.

I believe that this is actually not true. You should be able to resubmit your application with any changes at any point prior to midnight ET tonight and the system should overwrite your old submission with the new one.

[Trying to Help]

I did try submitting without the school specific numbers and it highlighted those fields in red. There was an error message which told me that I couldn't submit without filling out those fields. I ended up explaining the data in the free response question are which spoke about additional details for your team.

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[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by Trying to Help

Thanks for the pointers and wishes of luck!...

I confess that I feel just a little bit like I am in the company of giants knowing that both Mechanical Mayhem and Exploding Bacon are submitting for NASA grants.

Thank you again for all your help. Chief Delphi is a wonderful resource!

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Trying to Help -- congrats! Whatever you ended up writing for the NASA Grant application, you were successful -- I see your team on the list of Grant Award Winners for 2010!

--ken

[Trying to Help]

Originally Posted by Ken Streeter

Trying to Help -- congrats! Whatever you ended up writing for the NASA Grant application, you were successful -- I see your team on the list of Grant Award Winners for 2010!

--ken

Congrats on your grant also! I'm still stunned at the news that we received a grant from NASA. I know that there are so many great teams out there and so much financial need this year, that I'm still in shock from the news that we received a grant.

Congrats to all the teams that received a grant! And best wishes for other funding for those that will continue to the search.

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