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You may use the following questions as a guide to prepare
your application for the 2008-2009 FRC sponsorships, which
will be available September 19 2008. The questions
below are essay questions that will be required on the
application. You may also refer to the
applications directions
page for detailed eligibility information.
PLEASE NOTE:
The availability of sponsorships each year is contingent upon
the availability of Congressionally-appropriated funds for this
activity within the NASA budget.
Essay Questions:
1. Why are you considering entering a team in the 2009
FIRST Robotics Competition? What will define success for your team?
2.Please address the following issues:
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Explain the relationship you envision among your
students, faculty, and community partners as part of this year's
FRC experience, i.e., how will your team be
organized to facilitate interaction among these groups.
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Describe how you envision these groups working
together and benefiting from their involvement with FRC.
3. FRC provides high school students with many
unique opportunities, but because of the nature of the
competition, as well as the travel that can be involved,
participation in FRC can require significant
financial resources. In addition to the entrance fees, teams
must budget for robot prototyping and construction, travel to
one or more events, and miscellaneous such as tools, materials, team uniforms, supplies, etc.
Please outline your anticipated budget (expenses) and how you
plan to fund your team's participation (income) this year.
Please do not use a table format. Instead, please use
narrative format.
4. Please identify the corporate or community partners/mentors
who will assist and instruct the students in fabrication,
mechanical and electrical concepts, computer programming and
control, and computer aided design and animation. How will they
enable your students to be successful in this project?
5. Please describe how participation in FRC will
contribute to your school's overall educational goals, how
FRC will integrate with your existing curriculum, and how
you envision FRC helping your students meet
applicable local or national standards in math, science, and
technology?
6. Access to adequate woodworking, metalworking, welding, and
other facilities are important in the robot fabrication process.
Some teams have these capabilities available at their school,
while others take advantage of tools and machine shops provided
by their corporate partners. What facilities are available for
your team's use in this year's FRC program?
7. Do you have support from your senior-level administration,
e.g., principal or superintendent? Yes or NO
7a. As explained in the directions (
https://frc-grants.arc.nasa.gov/directions.php)
your school administration (principal, assistant principal, or
equivalent) MUST send a letter endorsing the team's desire to apply
for funding, confirming the educational sponsor's commitment to the
team, and agreeing to the conditions of sponsorship. This must be
sent in electronic form as an email or scanned copy of a letter to
frc-requirements@mail.arc.nasa.gov, must originate from the official
email account of the educational sponsor (Principal, Assistant
Principal, or equivalent), and must include your FRC team number
and the name of your school IN THE SUBJECT LINE.
If you have questions about this requirement, please contact us at
frc-grants@mail.arc.nasa.gov.
We must receive the email by no later than 23:59:59 EDT on Monday,
October 27, 2008. Failure to submit such a letter will result in
your application not being considered for funding. Check here to
acknowledge that you understand this requirement and that the
email from your school administration has already been sent or
that you promise it will be sent in time to be received by the
deadline. There will be NO EXTENSIONS.
Second Year teams only. Rookie and Veteran teams skip to question 11.
8. If you are applying for a second year of funding, you must be
willing to mentor a rookie team. If you are not yet mentoring a team,
one may be assigned to you. Please describe how you are planning to
mentor a rookie team (via telephone or e-mail conversations, personal
visits, demonstrations, etc.)?
9. If you are applying for a second year of funding you must also
demonstrate at least $6,000 in existing scool, community or corporate
sponsorship. Please list below the school/organization/company name,
amount of sponsorship, point of contact at the school/organization/company,
and contact telephone number so that the reviewers may verify this support.
10. Have you incorporated FRC robotics activities
into your classroom or other classes at your school? If yes,
please describe.
11. Please describe what will set your team apart from other
teams competing in this year's FIRST Robotics
Competition. What makes you unique? If there are any other
considerations that you would like to share with the review
panel, you may do so here as well.
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