If you have a Boeing mentor, make sure to apply for this grant!
The link seems to be broken (“Cannot find server”). Is it Boeing-internal only?
My mistake, it is an internal link. I believe Boeing mentors must apply if the team wants to apply for the grant. Teams - ask your boeing mentor for more information, I just wanted to let everyone know that this will begin on Monday.
Can you post the text of the announcement? If it isn’t against Boeing guidelines of course!
Pretty much everything that was important I already posted. The rest of the article just described what FIRST was. Boeing employee mentors have until October 26th to apply for a grant for their respective teams and the application will become available on Monday.
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.
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.
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/2009/q1/090227c_nr.html
Cheers,
Marcos.
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
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
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.
Just found out yesterday that our Boeing Grant came through for the second year in a row… Thank you Boeing!
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:)
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.
emails must be going out in batches as this week 2 of what I hope to be 3 teams recieved notice of Boeing sponsorship here in San Antonio. Yeah:D We got into the Boeing grant process late last year and didn’t get any applications submitted. Hopefully this year we are 3 for 3 here in San Antonio, Texas.
I haven’t seen any official announcements from Boeing about the teams they are supporting this year. So maybe we can come up with an unofficial list here.
They certainly deserve credit and kudos for sponsoring many FRC teams in these tough economic times
So…
Thank You Boeing!
Signed:
FRC2493 Team Robokong
<add your team here>
I haven’t seen any official announcements from Boeing about the teams they are supporting this year. So maybe we can come up with an unofficial list here.
They certainly deserve credit and kudos for sponsoring many FRC teams in these tough economic times
So…
Thank You Boeing!
Signed:
FRC2493 Team Robokong
FRC39, The 39th Aero Squadron
<add your team here>