NASA Grant

FIRST General Forum
#21

The NASA Grant will pay registration for the selected event. IF you have excess funds in your account, then you can request a refund of what you paid, or FIRST can hold it until you see if you qualify for CHP, or they will sometimes hold it for the next year.

#22

Is it shortly yet?

Just excited and ready for the build season:)

#23

I guess when your organization typically deals with light years, a couple extra days isn’t a big deal.

My completely uninformed guess would be Monday.

#24

"You’re still light-years away from facing Brock!

… Darn! Light-years isn’t time! It measures distance." ~Jr. Trainer

#25

Still nothing…

#26

I have a feeling FIRST Finance is going to be very busy later this week as everyone will be scrambling at the last minute to make their payment for their first event by Friday.

#27

I would highly recommend that teams make a payment before hearing about NASA grants, as you can get a refund or credit if you receive the grant but have already paid for the first regional.

This shouldn’t affect anyone but rookies anyway, as a requirement for receiving the grant as a veteran team is that you have raised more than $5000 in funds.

#28

Is FIRST pretty flexible for transferring payments and re-granting??

#29

Check that again, the $5000 stipulation seems to only affect teams in a “second year NASA sponsorship”…

#30

Ah, I knew it was a requirement for the continuing rookie grants but I guess it isn’t for Regional Challenge grants. My mistake.

#31

For those that don’t tweet.

Question: Any timeline for FIRST grant announcements?

“@NASA_RAP: 1 Dec We are working hard to get the announcement posted. We will post it as soon as we can though!”

#32

Yeah they replied to one an email I sent Sunday and it had basically the same reply.

#33

We apologize for the delay in the NASA grant announcements. The delay has been caused by several factors, some beyond our control. We hope to be posting the grant application evaluation results later today. Thank you for your patience.

-dave

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#34

Dave,

Thank you for the update on behalf of all of us appreciative (if jittery) applicants.

#35

Obviously a game hint

#36

Delay just keeps on going with all the time hints about the 2014 game.

#37

A NASA themed game sounds like another round of Lunacy. :wink: Thanks Dave for the update FRC is so fortunate to have such a strong partnership with NASA.

#38

I know that game hints are fun, but I highly doubt that this is a hint. No game hint is worth $5,000 or the stress put on a team this close to kickoff.

#39

I highly doubt the delay is a game hint. That would be somewhat unprofessional.

Mr Lavery’s punctuation though… :smiley:

#40

Thanks for the update Dave