# Team 8033: Highlander Robotics

Piedmont, California, USA. Rookie year 2020. District CA.

## Who backs them

- Sponsors: PG&E The Corporation Foundation, KLA Foundation, Piedmont Makers, Alice Schultz In Memory of Bill Schultz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Community Gift, Gene Haas, Anatomic Iron, Google, Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli, and Brewer, APC, AptarGroup, West Coast Products, Olympus Properties, Johnson & Johnson, Making Fun
- Website: https://www.frc8033.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frc8033
- GitHub: https://github.com/highlanderrobotics

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **87.43**, rank 767 of 3708 (79.3th percentile)
- Record: 22-20-0 over 42 matches (52% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 20.5, teleop 65.1, endgame 1.8
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 69%, RP2 15%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CA District San Francisco Event | 2026casnf | 2 | 5 | 8-4-0 | 34 | 2 | 107.0 | 51 |  |
| CA District Glendale Event | 2026cagle | 4 | 18 | 7-5-0 | 30 | 8 | 91.9 | 26 |  |
| FIRST California Northern State Championship | 2026cancmp | 7 | 39 | 5-7-0 | 27 |  | 87.4 | 33 |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District FIRST Impact Award (2026casnf)
- Team Sustainability Award sponsored by Dow (2026cagle)

## CAD

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

- 2024, Comp Robot, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ac6631eaf174fe4fc1dd9e51/w/2bcbe441260ba9103a2a31ee/e/22faf49d86ee19d24271b00e

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 2
- Awards: 19, over 6 seasons

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finalist | 6 | 2025, 2024, 2023 |
| Impact | 2 | 2026, 2024 |
| Engineering Inspiration | 2 | 2025, 2022 |
| Leadership | 2 | 2024, 2022 |
| Team Sustainability | 1 | 2026 |
| Excellence in Engineering | 1 | 2025 |
| Industrial Design | 1 | 2025 |
| Quality | 1 | 2024 |
| Imagery | 1 | 2023 |
| Wildcard (no longer given) | 1 | 2023 |
| Rookie Game Changer (no longer given) | 1 | 2020 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Creativity, Gracious Professionalism, Impact Finalist, Innovation in Control, Judges', Rising All-Star, Team Spirit, VOTY, Winner, Woodie Flowers.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | FIRST California Northern State Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | CA District Glendale Event | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2026 | CA District San Francisco Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2025 | Johnson Division | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | East Bay Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2025 | San Francisco Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2025 | Orange County Regional | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2024 | Milstein Division | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2024 | Orange County Regional | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2024 | San Francisco Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2023 | Galileo Division | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2023 | Monterey Bay Regional | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2023 | Central Valley Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Finalist |
| 2022 | Turing Division | Alliance 3 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2022 | Silicon Valley Regional | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | Sacramento Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 87.4 | 767 / 3708 | 79.3 | 22-20-0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 73.3 | 170 / 3687 | 95.4 | 39-21-0 | 6 |
| 2024 | 38.4 | 124 / 3475 | 96.5 | 33-13-0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 61.9 | 46 / 3284 | 98.6 | 33-17-1 | 5 |
| 2022 | 28.1 | 529 / 3053 | 82.7 | 25-17-0 | 4 |

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