Funding+and+Future+opportunities

One possible motivation for the completion and continuation of the project for future years is the entering into of various rocket competitions. The most relevant one seems to be the National Rocket Program, run by the Australian Youth Aerospace Association, who also run the Aerospace Futures Conference. They have some backing from industry as well as university and research bodies including ScramSpace. The National Rocket Program (click here) is designed to be an inter-university rocket competition similar I imagine to the Warman and Outback Challenges that Monash is already a part of. It doesn't seem to be running yet but we have been in contact with the event organisers and have expressed an interest, we will need to continue to stay in contact to get important details as the competition rules are released.
 * Competitions and Founding**

Eric Chien __National Science Week Grants__ Melbourne University's Physics Students' Society were funded by the Federal Government to launch ~20 rockets at Scienceworks during National Science Week 2011. (see [])
 * Funding**

These grants may of benefit to us, unfortunately, grants for this years funding have closed. "Applications for grants are generally requested in October for the year following, ... So in October 2012 there’ll be a call for submissions from people hoping for a grant and you’d find out if it were successful in approximately February 2013."

"There is a total of $500 000 available, and you can apply for funding of between $2000 and $25 000 to support your event." (see [])

Nonetheless, this appears to be worthwhile in pursuing for next year (for those of us who will still be around) especially considering that by October we will hopefully be able to provide a reasonable demonstration of our capabilities. This funding appears to stretch from 2012-2014. ([]) Eric Chien

I had a fairly detailed look over the guidelines and requirements. As long as we are able to find a way to make it a public event (maybe hold a number of public launches over a week or something) we should be able to get some funding, most likely in the small grant category (<$5000). The only real issue I could forsee is that they are requesting a full breakdown of what the grant money we are asking for is to be spent on, so anything done prior to the time that we get the funding will not be elegible. This could rule out a lot of our major costs. Hopefully by october though we will have a good idea of how much most things will cost and we can determine if it is worth applying. Daniel Certoma

Here is the initial draft of the proposal powerpoint Comment on facebook if there is anything to add.
 * Proposal & Costing**

Here is a revised draft of the proposal powerpoint. We have included cool pix and some formating. Some pictures are still only placeholders. Additionally, still need to improve content (costs, safety, regulations). Again comment on facebook for further changes.

An initial costing has been added here. Some of the costing estimates are arbitrary, and need to be double checked. I've highlighted them in yellow. Please add/change anything if you see something!