Funding will support to FTC teams with registration, robotics parts, and community outreach supplies

The grant will be used to replace supplies like aging robot brains and batteries, and for providing pneumatics systems for all squads. The funds would also be used to continue offering scholarships to new team members in the Spring when the seniors graduate. Lastly, to offset costs in relation to renting the cafeteria at school for our Annual Capital tournament on December 16, 2023.

This grant will be used to fund the mission of Power Hawks Robotics by purchasing materials needed to field our competition and demonstration robots, provide subsidized travel for the team's students to attend District Championships, and to provided much needed updated controls laptops for our programming team and drive operations.

Grant would be used to purchase new lab equipment for our 2024 maSTErMinds camps and STEM Adventure Days. We are planning to purchase two additional simple machines, new rockets (and required accessories), altimeters and iPads for recording data and calculations.

The grant will be allocated to facilitate the acquisition of STEM equipment, assist in organizing events, cover travel expenses to the convention (NSBE National) and competitions (Ten80 Nationals and TARC Nationals), offset competition fees, and address administrative costs.

We intend to use the grant to support various aspects of our robotics team's endeavors. A portion of the funds will be allocated to cover competition registration fees and travel expenses, ensuring our participation in these events. The grant will also be crucial in acquiring mechanical and electrical components for building our robots, enabling us to stay competitive. Additionally, we aim to foster outreach activities that provide enriching experiences for students. This includes renting spaces for our activities and purchasing necessary supplies and parts to facilitate these initiatives, ensuring that we can offer the best educational opportunities and inspire a passion for robotics in our community.

Grant will be used to help cover Robotics building costs and potential registration costs for events. The funds will help the students expand their ability to have access to the latest hardware within the FIRST Robotics environment.

The grant will be used for both help pay for FRC yearly registration and for materials to build the robot.

Used to offset costs associated with robot supplies and materials, parts, and FIRST competition fees. The following are details for each area:
1. Purchase additive and subtractive manufacturing tools’ input material: aluminum sheet and tube stock, polycarbonate, and 3D printing filament for prototyping and final custom products. This supports the student team’s projects and their on-demand robot building needs.
2. purchase additive and subtractive manufacturing worn accessories replacement such as endmills for the CNC equipment. This will help ensure maintenance of equipment and updates to tools provide continuity of production needs.
3. Purchase robotics motors and associated parts, electronics to include replacement batteries, electric power systems, components, connectors, wiring, and robot structure fasteners. This will expand the ability for building competitive robots.
4. Purchase materials such as wood lumber, plywood sheets, metal bars, hardware, polycarbonate sheets, and other materials in support to build a partial robot competition testing and practicing game arena.
5. Partial payment of competition fees towards the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Chesapeake District Championship or Off-season FIRST competition fees.

Our new program initiative for which we request a grant is: "Robotics for All: The Irrational Engineers Community Outreach Mobile Robotics Workshop." MSBR's grant contribution will go directly towards purchasing our new mobile robotics workshop, educational robotic kits, and robot building supplies, which will be used to conduct mobile robotics workshops throughout Prince George's County, Maryland. Additionally, to honor and thank the MSBR for the support shown to our organization, we will display the MSBR logo prominently on our enclosed cargo trailer, becoming a moving billboard that travels across Prince George's County. This strategic placement ensures maximum recognition for the significant impact in STEM that the Maryland Space Business Roundtable has made in Prince George's County as we engage with our communities during our mobile robotics workshops. Thank you for considering our program!

We will use this grant to fund our adaptive sports program projects for 2024. Projects are detailed in the slide presentation.

To fund the Baltimore Bolts, an all-city FRC team. We would use the funds to purchase parts for next year's robot and support taking the students to away competitions in DC & Virginia (& hopefully Houston!).

The GOAL Engineering Kit program seeks to close the opportunity gaps in engineering education by:

1.Supporting a pathway for K-12 students to engage with high quality engineering
activities, with a current focus on middle and high school students and especially students from
historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, first generation students and women/girls.

2. Supporting local K-12 educators with integrating engineering activities, including
teacher curriculum support and connecting students and teachers to higher
education and admission pathways.

3. Empowering undergraduate students to engage with their local community and educators,
including focusing on incorporating DEI in the design process to create an inclusive
activity for all.

The grant will be used to continue expanding the GOAL Engineering Kit Program to additional K-12 students in Maryland outside of our current partnership with Prince George’s County and Montgomery County Public Schools by providing funding for the development and manufacturing of the kits. Since the GOAL program began in the Summer of 2020, over 6,800 kits have been distributed. From Fall 2022 - Summer 2023, 2,610 kits were distributed to various Maryland school partners and 731 middle and high school students participated in on-campus culminating events.

Support from MSBR will be used to underwrite participation costs for underserved children in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Local parents, children and education partners have expressed a strong desire for Camp Invention to be hosted during summer 2024. The community is eager to provide students with STEM-based enrichment aligned with state and national standards while also combatting learning loss .

Funding will:
• Allow NIHF to impact economically-disadvantaged children whose families lack the financial resources to pay the registration fee;
• Improve Prince George’s County Public Schools’ English/language arts overall proficiency score of 10%;
• Improve Prince George’s County Public Schools’ math overall proficiency score of 13.1%;
• Engage children in a STEM-based program that develops creative and inventive thinking; and
• Increase the number of local educators who receive professional development.

Camp Invention is a week-long summer enrichment program with curricula focused on developing creativity, inventive thinking and problem-solving skills through hands-on STEM content. As children are immersed in Camp Invention’s rich storylines and inquiry-based challenges, they have countless opportunities to develop 21st Century competency skills (e.g., communication, collaboration, critical thinking). This experience prepares the next generation of the workforce for success from an early age as they develop skills to positively contribute to their communities.

This grant would be used to support the STEM Girls Night In and STEM Boys Night In events which were created to inspire and engage students in STEM activities as they learn, experiment, network and connect with role models in STEM careers. Funding directly used to provide meals and supplies to support hands-on activities and challenge.

The grant will be used to provide financial support to keep our team membership fees low so all students can participate. Funds would go to registration ($1,300), robot parts ($1,000), hybrid, zoom fees ($200), STEM kits for outreaches ($500) and travel costs for out of area competition ($500)

The grant will be used to purchase two Podcaster Studios for the Patriots Internet TV Show to interview STEM professionals.

To support 5 STEM classrooms across Baltimore City.

Flight PC board fabrication $800
Components for flight build $900
Ground station antenna rotator / controller for $2300

Every year, The Blair Robot Project builds a robot to participate in FIRST Robotics Competition. Our team consists of 88 student members that attend Montgomery Blair High School and participate on the Business, Electronics, Programming, and Mechanics subteams. This year we would like the Maryland Space Business Rountable's support in providing the adequate funds necessary to build an innovative robot, participate in competitions, and support our various outreach programs. Our team meets 2-3 times a week to develop a robot that is able to compete in our offseason (Bunnybots) and regular FRC build season. Renting the room we use for our meetings costs around $1,000 annually but we hope your support will help us cover the cost of reserving the space where we discuss ideas for robot design and construct well-engineered and competitive robots. Building our robot, we need to also purchase parts and tools to improve the efficiency of our robot and answer to the challenges presented in our competitions. Holding our Bunnybots offseason event and paying for our competitions is also a serious expenditure for our team, costing around $16,000. Lastly, an essential portion of Team 449 is the outreach program, where we set up STEM Fairs for elementary school students and teach classes in programming (classes in Java, Python, and Scratch for students of all ages) throughout our community. We hope MSBR will be able to support us in building our robot, preparing for competitions, and supporting our initiatives for the 2023-2024 school year.

The grant will be used to cover transportation costs, supplies/materials needed to create the robot, and travel expenses for future regional/state/Worlds tournaments.

The grant will be used to cover the costs of travel, registration fees, and supplies.

Outreach, including hosting a qualifying tournament; ability to attend world championship; robot construction parts

We would like financial support to cover registration fees and parts
Registration for the team and for the district and world championship makes up the majority of our costs
To support our goal of building two robots, addition robot material funding is needed

The grant will be used to pay for parts, supplies, and registration fees to build our robots. The funds will also be used for outreaches to promote STEM.

The MSBR grant will be used by CryptoHawks to help finance the purchase of needed robotics supplies such as PVC pipes and structural tubes, as well as laptops. We are currently in need of approximately $4000 worth of robotics materials. Our team has expanded greatly in size over the past year, and as a result more robotics equipment is needed to support our growing student population.

Grant will pay for team registration or parts for FRC events. FRC Teams 6863 and 8514 share resources and will both benefit from any contribution you are willing to provide.

Model Rocket Kits for Youth Build, Contest Awards and Giveaways for STEM Events.

It would be used to cover registration costs for FRC events, administrative supplies, and well as parts for the construction of the robot.

$800 3D printer; $300, event registration fee; $700 Rev control hub and expansion hub