[F Elliott]

It looks like I will be changing schools. They are super supportive of starting either a FIRST FTC team or a VEX team and building a robotics program. I've had one year experience with starting my current FTC team so I'm familiar with the kit but expert on building a program.

They have one grant they're very confident we'll get ($5000) and one grant they're reasonably confident we'll get ($2000). I need to identify what to spend the money on.

We have nothing. No kit, parts, tools, software, or registrations. We have computers. I'm going to start putting a detailed list together but I'd be interested in hearing from the community what you would do if you had $7000 to start a program. Would you start one FTC team with lots of resources? Two teams? An FLL team?

We had a bench drill press and a band saw last year and they proved highly useful. What machine tools should I buy? Would you go for a small mill? There were times I wished we had one this year.

This is going to be a great opportunity!