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The NASA application for FIRST Robotics Competition team
sponsorships for 2007-2008 will be posted on October 1. A link to
the application is located
here.
Until that time, you may use the following questions as a guide to prepare for your application.
The questions below are essay questions that will be required on the application. PLEASE NOTE:
The availability of sponsorships each year is contingent upon the availability of funds for this
activity within the NASA budget.
Essay Questions:
1. Why are you considering entering a team in the 2008
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
FIRST 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 FIRST.
3. FIRST 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 FIRST 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 items like team t-shirts.
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
paragraph 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 FIRST will
contribute to your school's overall educational goals, how
FIRST will integrate with your existing curriculum, and how
you envision FIRST 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 FIRST program?
7. Do you have support from your senior-level administration,
e.g., principal or superintendent? If yes, please describe.
Year 2 teams only. Year 1 teams skip to question 11.
8. If you are applying for year two funding, please describe
how you are planning to mentor a rookie team. If you are not yet
mentoring a team, are you willing to mentor one if one is
provided to you (via telephone or e-mail conversations, personal
visits, demonstrations, etc.)?
9. If you are applying for year two funding you must also
demonstrate at least $6,000 in existing community or corporate
sponsorship. Please list below the company name, amount of
sponsorship, point of contact at the company, and contact
telephone number so that the reviewers may verify this support.
10. Have you incorporated FIRST robotics activities
into your classroom 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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