NASA Grant and Chairmans

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by David Brinza

We found wording of the check-box at the start of the CA submission a little confusing:

We are submitting this only to meet the requirements of a NASA grant and do not wish to have this submission judged.

As I recall from last year, there was a checkbox to indicate the submission was submitted to fulfill the NASA Grant requirement, but it wasn't combined with the "do not judge" language. I expected to see a "NASA Grant" check-box this year, but not as it was written.

We left the box unchecked, because we see real value in having our submission judged.

I agree that the wording of the check box was a bit clumsy. The intent is that the rookie teams that are not eligible to submit for the Chairmans Award, but are required to submit the equivalent statement to NASA as a requirement of the grant, would check this box. I would expect that everyone else that goes through the process of preparing a submission would want to have it judged.

-dave


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