# Team 8515: Photon

Houston, Texas, USA. Rookie year 2021. District FIT.

## Who backs them

- School: Strake Jesuit College Prep Sch & St Agnes Academy
- Sponsors: The Boeing Company, Analog Devices, REV Robotics, Gene Haas Foundation, TE Connectivity, QADWorks, Solarcraft Inc., NI, Emerson, Vivid Hosting, Fabworks, SendCutSend, Del's Plating Works

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **96.08**, rank 663 of 3708 (82.1th percentile)
- Record: 18-17-0 over 35 matches (51% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 26.8, teleop 67.7, endgame 1.5
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 77%, RP2 18%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FIT District Houston Event | 2026txhou | 3 | 16 | 6-6-0 | 22 | 3 | 61.4 | 51 |  |
| FIT District Space City @ Friendswood Event #2 | 2026txcl2 | 5 | 13 | 6-6-0 | 30 | 2 | 96.1 | 36 |  |
| Texas Robotics Invitational | 2026txhou1 | 17 | 15 | 5-4-0 | 25 | 8 | 99.7 |  |  |
| Texas Robotics Invitational Girls Drive Tournament | 2026txhou2 | 17 |  |  |  | 6 | 113.1 |  |  |
| Dripping Springs Robotics Invitational Palooza 2026 | 2026txdri1 | 22 | 11 | 4-8-0 | 20 |  | 47.1 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District Event Finalist (2026txhou)
- Gracious Professionalism Award (2026txhou)

## 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/b6dec321d434a78b0c8b1f4a/w/e95933a4dd5ad878cfc66b01/e/859bb1936bab88d5ad4c5333

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 0
- Awards: 9, over 5 seasons

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gracious Professionalism | 5 | 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 |
| Leadership | 2 | 2023, 2022 |
| Finalist | 1 | 2026 |
| Quality | 1 | 2024 |

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

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | FIT District Space City @ Friendswood Event #2 | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2026 | FIT District Houston Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2025 | FIT District Houston Event | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2025 | FIT District Waco Event | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | FIT District Houston Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2024 | FIT District Katy Event | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | FIT District Houston Event | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | FIT District Channelview Event |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | FIT District Pasadena Event #1 | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | FIT District Channelview Event | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 96.1 | 663 / 3708 | 82.1 | 18-17-0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 22.1 | 2329 / 3687 | 36.8 | 15-16-0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 21.8 | 977 / 3475 | 71.9 | 18-14-0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 25.4 | 1674 / 3284 | 49.0 | 10-16-1 | 4 |
| 2022 | 6.6 | 2529 / 3053 | 17.2 | 12-16-0 | 6 |

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

The same page for a person: [https://www.match13.com/team/8515](https://www.match13.com/team/8515).

---

- Every URL on this site: [https://www.match13.com/sitemap.xml](https://www.match13.com/sitemap.xml)
- What this site is for: [https://www.match13.com/llms.txt](https://www.match13.com/llms.txt)
- Send `Accept: text/markdown` to any page here to read it as markdown.