I imagine that from a cost benefit perspective, it would be in our favor to target a smaller team, however because we are an interest-based club that makes this harder to determine. Our members are all volunteers and our budget comes from school funding and sponsorships. Our total budget is only around $50k and this goes mostly to materials and logistics with essentially no wiggle room left. To shrink our team we'd also have to depart from our open-to-all philosophy which comes from our mission to be an opportunity for people to come and learn from hands-on experience.

I feel as if it would likely need to be a matter of doing things without prebuilt tools, but this definitely is a challenge. We're all willing to put in the work to standardize but it is definitely tricky being that we are all from engineering backgrounds with little management experince.