# Team 5419: Berkelium

Berkeley, California, USA. Rookie year 2015. District CA.

## Who backs them

- School: Berkeley High School
- Sponsors: Bowden Family Foundation, Cultivating Leadership, Berkeley High School Development Group, Dream Maker Fund, Bayer, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, Google, Berkeley Public Schools Fund, Berkeley Rotary Club, PG and E, Smart Deploy, First NorCal, Harbor Freight
- Website: https://team5419.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/berkelium5419
- GitHub: https://github.com/team5419

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **39.49**, rank 1722 of 3708 (53.6th percentile)
- Record: 22-21-0 over 43 matches (51% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 11.9, teleop 27.6, endgame 0.0
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 28%, RP2 7%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CA District Silicon Valley Event presented by Apple | 2026casnv | 2 | 17 | 7-5-0 | 28 | 8 | 52.4 | 27 |  |
| CA District East Bay Event | 2026caetb | 5 | 6 | 9-3-0 | 37 | 4 | 84.4 | 52 |  |
| FIRST California Northern State Championship | 2026cancmp | 7 | 60 | 3-8-0 | 15 |  | 39.5 | 9 |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District Engineering Inspiration Award sponsored by SpaceX (2026caetb)
- Rising All-Star Award (2026casnv)

## CAD

Robot CAD the team published, via the Spectrum CAD Collection. Links open on the hosting platform.

- 2025, Comp Robot, Onshape: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DmX770w0dYkSdFfwkm7XNc3F_L_8GoeQ/view?usp=sharing
- 2025, Comp Robot, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/cbac4d341fde187d6a3df2dd/w/671a22ea8fa734b50685197f/e/7de17960ad8b4f3431fbf947
- 2024, Comp Robot, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a2ac178c98456cd66b50dfeb/w/e7bb855c04905a63f85545b9/e/59d40079b5ee65f1471a60f1?renderMode=0&uiState=663e47aca018bb61443878ee

## Name history

Every name FIRST recorded for this team, newest first. A span states the first and last season the name was on the team.

- 2020 – now: Berkelium
- 2017 – 2019: Natural Disasters

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 1
- Awards: 17, over 7 seasons
- Einstein appearances: 1 (2023)

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Creativity | 3 | 2025, 2024, 2019 |
| Industrial Design | 3 | 2024, 2023, 2020 |
| Finalist | 2 | 2024, 2023 |
| Innovation in Control | 2 | 2024, 2023 |
| Engineering Inspiration | 1 | 2026 |
| Rising All-Star | 1 | 2026 |
| Quality | 1 | 2025 |
| Leadership | 1 | 2024 |
| Wildcard (no longer given) | 1 | 2023 |
| Winner | 1 | 2023 |
| Autonomous | 1 | 2022 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Excellence in Engineering, Gracious Professionalism, Imagery, Impact, Impact Finalist, Judges', Team Spirit, Team Sustainability, VOTY, Woodie Flowers.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | FIRST California Northern State Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | CA District East Bay Event | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2026 | CA District Silicon Valley Event presented by Apple | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | East Bay Regional | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2025 | Sacramento Regional | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2025 | Pinnacles Regional | Alliance 4 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | East Bay Regional | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | Sacramento Regional | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2024 | Hueneme Port Regional | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | Einstein Field | Alliance 7 · 3rd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | Milstein Division | Alliance 2 · 3rd pick | Won the event |
| 2023 | Sacramento Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2023 | San Francisco Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2023 | Canadian Pacific Regional | Alliance 6 · captain | Top four |
| 2022 | Silicon Valley Regional | Alliance 5 · captain | Top four |
| 2022 | Sacramento Regional | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2022 | Ventura County Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Top four |
| 2019 | Sacramento Regional | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2019 | San Francisco Regional | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | Central Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2018 | San Francisco Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | San Francisco Regional |  | Not picked |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 39.5 | 1722 / 3708 | 53.6 | 22-21-0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 70.0 | 225 / 3687 | 93.9 | 27-17-0 | 6 |
| 2024 | 38.2 | 128 / 3475 | 96.3 | 26-14-1 | 6 |
| 2023 | 46.2 | 475 / 3284 | 85.6 | 39-21-0 | 8 |
| 2022 | 33.7 | 290 / 3053 | 90.5 | 30-15-1 | 5 |
| 2019 | 25.8 | 330 / 3763 | 91.3 | 12-15-0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 91.3 | 1309 / 3617 | 63.8 | 13-9-0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 56.6 | 2490 / 3331 | 25.3 | 3-7-0 | 1 |

A season is chosen with `?year=` on this URL.

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