{"id":6396,"date":"2025-10-06T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:46:40","slug":"10-5-25-the-mde-grant-is-back-we-are-in-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/2025\/10\/06\/10-5-25-the-mde-grant-is-back-we-are-in-the-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"10.5.25 &#8211; The MDE Grant is BACK! We are in the budget!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I am excited to share that the MDE Grant (99h) is back. We are in the budget at a slightly\u00a0higher\u00a0amount than last year! Non-pubs are in again at the same number.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I want to thank everyone who sent notes or spoke with their legislators.\u00a0 You helped them understand the importance of this grant to our robotics teams and to Michigan&#8217;s future workforce.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you&#8217;d like to send a quick thank-you email to those you&#8217;ve sent letters to, that would\u00a0be fantastic!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As soon as the MDE releases the timeline for applying, I&#8217;ll send it along to you.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>KIT OPT OUT<\/div>\n<div>For those of you who responded to the late opt-out email, your dashboard should reflect your opt-out choices shortly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\" dir=\"ltr\" data-smartmail=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Best Regards,<\/p>\n<div>Gail Alpert<\/div>\n<div>President, FIRST in Michigan<\/div>\n<div>248-425-4148<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"mailto:gail@firstinmichigan.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gail@firstinmichigan.org<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am excited to share that the MDE Grant (99h) is back. We are in the budget at a slightly\u00a0higher\u00a0amount than last year! Non-pubs are in again at the same number. I want to thank everyone who sent notes or spoke with their legislators.\u00a0 You helped them understand the importance of this grant to our robotics teams and to Michigan&#8217;s future workforce. If you&#8217;d like to send a quick thank-you email to those you&#8217;ve sent letters to, that would\u00a0be fantastic! As soon as the MDE releases the timeline for applying, I&#8217;ll send it along to you. KIT OPT OUT For those of you who responded<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/2025\/10\/06\/10-5-25-the-mde-grant-is-back-we-are-in-the-budget\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ericsavage","4":"post-6396","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6397,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions\/6397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}