Instructions

• Provide a concise statement describing your project purpose and goals
• How your project is unique and inclusive
• How your project benefits graduate students
• Provide specifics about requests you are making to the GradLab for facility space, equipment, funding, etc.
• Define how you plan to evaluate your program’s success
• Submit your program Pitch Your Project Request Form and provide a detailed budget for your program.
• Download the GradLab budget template make a copy and rename with the title of your project and submit via the form.

Approval Process

• Submit a completed Pitch Your GradLab Project form by the quarterly deadline.
• GradLab committee will screen proposals for eligibility given their adherence to the above criteria and their feasibility as a GradLab-supported program.
• Proposals that make it through the preliminary evaluation are put onto a ballot by the
• GradLab committee that is then circulated among the UCSC graduate student population, allowing the grad community to vote for/express interest in particular proposals.
• Student Vote Endorsed the Project
• Based on the grad community vote, the top three proposals in a given cycle are greenlighted as GradLab programs, with the approval of the GradLab committee, who holds final discretionary power.
• Principal moves forward with hosting the event and distribution of funding
• Caveat to the cycle (small programs): programs requesting less than $300 total from GradLab bypass the student survey for approval by the GradLab committee outside of the longer/normal cycle, and are therefore effectively fast-tracked.

Grant Cycles/Deadlines

Winter Quarter 2019: February 1, 2019

Spring Quarter 2019: April 15, 2019

Fall Quarter 2019: November 29, 2019