# Team 7657: Thunderbots

Evansville, Indiana, USA. Rookie year 2019. District FIN.

## Who backs them

- School: New Tech Institute
- Sponsors: Toyota Manufacturing, Matrix Design Group LLC, Luke Pettijohn, Evansville Vanderburgh School Coporation, Chapman Injury Law, New Tech Institute High School, Haubstadt Family Dentistry, Andy Mark, OneMain Bank
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@7657thunderbots
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/7657_thunderbots
- GitHub: https://github.com/7657thunderbots

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **38.75**, rank 1758 of 3708 (52.6th percentile)
- Record: 14-28-0 over 42 matches (33% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 6.9, teleop 31.2, endgame 0.6
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 25%, RP2 6%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FIN District Columbus Event | 2026incol | 3 | 34 | 4-8-0 | 15 |  | 18.7 | 6 |  |
| FIN District Washington Event presented by Toyota IN & VU CARA | 2026inwas | 5 | 24 | 2-10-0 | 11 | 2 | 31.9 | 38 |  |
| FIRST Indiana State Championship | 2026incmp | 7 | 35 | 3-9-0 | 15 |  | 38.7 | 33 |  |
| RiverBOaT Rumble | 2026kylou | 19 | 7 | 6-4-0 | 25 | 3 | 27.2 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District Event Winner (2026inwas)
- District Championship FIRST Leadership Award Semi-Finalist (2026inwas)
- Team Spirit Award (2026incmp)

## 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.

- 2026 – now: Thunderbots
- 2019 – 2025: ThunderBots

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 3
- Awards: 13, over 6 seasons

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Team Spirit | 3 | 2026, 2023, 2019 |
| Winner | 3 | 2026, 2023, 2020 |
| Leadership | 2 | 2026, 2023 |
| Engineering Inspiration | 2 | 2025 |
| Gracious Professionalism | 1 | 2025 |
| Creativity | 1 | 2024 |
| Judges' | 1 | 2023 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Excellence in Engineering, Finalist, Imagery, Impact, Impact Finalist, Industrial Design, Innovation in Control, Quality, Rising All-Star, Team Sustainability, VOTY, Woodie Flowers.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | FIRST Indiana State Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | FIN District Washington Event presented by Toyota IN & VU CARA | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2026 | FIN District Columbus Event |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | Curie Division |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | FIRST Indiana State Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | FIN District Washington Event presented by Toyota Indiana and Vincennes University | Alliance 8 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | FIN District Lafayette Event |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | FIRST Indiana State Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | FIN District Washington Event presented by Toyota Indiana and Vincennes University | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2024 | FIN District Columbus Event | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | FIRST Indiana State Championship | Alliance 3 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2023 | FIN District Greenwood Event | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2023 | FIN District Princeton Event presented by Toyota | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | FIN District Tippecanoe Event | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | FIN District Columbus Event presented by Toyota | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2020 | IN District Bloomington Event | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2019 | IN District Tippecanoe Event |  | Not picked |
| 2019 | IN District St. Joseph Event |  | Not picked |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 38.8 | 1758 / 3708 | 52.6 | 14-28-0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 42.0 | 1069 / 3687 | 71.0 | 22-26-0 | 5 |
| 2024 | 16.3 | 1530 / 3475 | 56.0 | 18-24-1 | 5 |
| 2023 | 50.0 | 341 / 3284 | 89.6 | 35-24-0 | 6 |
| 2022 | 16.1 | 1347 / 3053 | 55.9 | 9-20-0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 38.8 | 538 / 2024 | 73.5 | 10-8-0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 16.6 | 1756 / 3763 | 53.3 | 7-17-0 | 2 |

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

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