[MichaelBick]

1)Initial registration fee (1 regional OR 2 districts)
2)Registration Fee for additional regional OR district championship
3)A mentor of your choice with FRC strategic design expertise
4)Basic hand tools + Measurement tools + Electrical tools (nothing powered)
5)Basic power tools (Cordless drill + bit set, Dremel, etc.)
6)Laser OR water jet cutter
7)$500 Visa Debit Card
8)$500 voucher for McMaster-Carr
9)Lathe & tooling
10)Full Size Practice Area (Space, Carpet, Driver Stations - No Game Elements)
11)$500 worth of raw material (aluminum, steel, polycarb)
12)$500 voucher for AndyMark
13)A mentor of your choice with programming expertise
14)A mentor of your choice with mechanical engineering expertise
15)3 Axis CNC & tooling
16)Team Meeting Area (2)
17)A mentor of your choice with CAD/Inventor expertise
18)$500 voucher for VEX/VEX Pro
19)Six additional batteries and chargers
20)Pit Set Up of your choice + Robot Cart
21)Belt sander + grinder + arbor press
22)Mill & tooling
23)Drill press & bit set + Band saw
24)$500 voucher for Lowe’s or Home Depot
25)Travel expenses (hotel, transportation, food) for two competition events
26)Two Laptops with OS + Internet access
27)Sheet metal bending capabilities
28)Welding capabilities
29)A mentor of your choice with electrical engineering expertise
30)A mentor of your choice with expertise in all non-engineering matters

Reasoning:
Much of the reasoning is based on our students and our value for mentors. Every student on our team is required by our school to have a computer. Our students can CAD, wire, and program a robot by ourselves, though extra mentors are always nice. Also students would be expected to pay for trips to regionals, their uniforms, etc.

I think we need at least one mentor(guranteed). Personally I believe that in any mentor, frc experience is very valuable. I would take a good frc design mentor, because they would have the experience in frc to know how to use resources efficiently to build a simple robot that uses all of our limited resources to the maximum. Furthermore, I would expect them to be able to help out with coordination and CAD.

Waterjet, lathe, and power/hand tools let us build a very effective robot. Without a mill, waterjet parts can be used as templates. I think this is the absolute minimum to build a competitive robot(with these resources a regional winning robot can be built). Practice field gives us space for poractice which is essential, and vouchers give us enough money to buy most of the material we need to build our simple, but effective robot.

After our guaranteed items, extra vouchers give us more money to buy more materials/items we need. Extra mentors help with workload and also help patch up holes in our student body. The mechanical mentor is especially important, because he/she allows enables us to use the cnc machine. The cnc covers most of the other tools, including knee mill and drill press. Other jobs can be done by hand(arbor press is the exception but it by itself doesn't validate the spot). Items 1-15 allows us to build a regional winning robot. 1-20 would make our lives a bit easier doing that.

If monetary values were included, I'd imagine this list would look a bit different. I would imagine the cnc would be a high monetary value, and therefor the manual mill would make a lot more sense.