2024   Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)  Grant Application

 Welcome to the 2024 Pathfinder Charitable Foundation grant application.  Please fill out the below application and submit.  The process is that your request will be reviewed by the Grant Selection Committee within 10 working days.  The Awards are single application for single award, and the winners agree to provide final report of their project or competition in accordance with their application. The Pathfinder Charitable Foundation, hereby advise all individuals that video / audio recordings of our events can occur at any time and without notice to participants.  By completing the Grant Application you, your organization, and your team consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded and for these recordings to be stored / published in connection with our marketing efforts (i.e., websites, in social media, news and advertising) with or without participant names and without further consent by any participant.

 

If different from Applicant

Please amplify such as, the Tennessee River Racers have applied for AUVSI and Charitable Foundation grants for the elementary school FIRST Robotics competitions since 1995. We have received grants each year and it has expanded from 1 to 4 teams then middle school from 1 to 2 teams and the high school has one team since 2005 and have received grant money each year. The monies have been used for competition registrations, kits, replacement equipment and travel to state level competitions after winning at the local level.  

Clear Selection

Include planned events (Schedule of how the monies will be used over period of project.) is it 30 days or 6 months or 1 year?
   For example:
1)  Our team is formed, and we are applying for funding to register for upcoming competition to be held by NAME OF ORGANIZATION, to be held in LOCATION on  DATE.  The fee is $???, and we have already applied to Tennessee Valley Authority and our sponsors for potential sources.
 2) Our team will be working during the period of October through February with the First Robotics League and the designated Kits for the 2022-2023 competition year.  We need $ ??? for spare batteries ($??), and consumable parts (??), and team shirts (??). We plan to spend the money in October and November.  If we are successful, we would like to come back and request additional grant for next higher level of competition, in the February-April time frame.

3) This is the 7th year of working with the Pathfinder Chapter, Our team is made up of middle school students from the XYZ School district.  Our team consists of 11 students with diverse experiences and are challenging the 2023 Robotics Competition to be held at the University of Alabama Bryant Conference Center (https://robotics24.net/en/services/competitions/alabama-robotics-competition-2023-en/) in Tuscaloosa.  We are requesting $3000 for our materials budget for computer equipment, controls, actuators, and sensors.  We plan to spend the money during November and December after the design is completed and prior to integration and testing prior to competition.  The design will be autonomous and be required to operate in a space which has relocatable objects for a higher level of difficulty.

4 This grant request is for$800 to purchase a replacement Indoor Soccer UAS device ($500) and batteries ($250) in support of existing our school  Indoor Soccer Team.   This equipment will be used by 475 students during the school year of 2022-2023. We plan to spend the money within 30 days of award.  We are evaluating participating in regional competitions if the proposed US Space and Rocket Center Indoor Soccer League is created.  We do not currently know if there is a registration fee to participate

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