Our Journey Through the Years

Every season. Every robot. Every match. Team 8041's story from rookie year to today.

2026

Team 8041 Robot 2026 - JoSoFine

JoSoFine

FIM District Lakeview Event

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FIM District Lake City Event presented by AT&T

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2025

Team 8041 Robot 2025 - Jolene

Jolene

FIM District Lake City Event

Ranked 23rd
Alliance: 2nd pick of #1 (w/ 226, 3767)
Knocked out in Playoffs Round 4

FIM District Muskegon Event

Ranked 14th
Alliance: 2nd pick of #8 (w/ 4004, 2771)
Rising All-Star Award

2024

Team 8041 Robot 2024

Crescendo Bot

FIM District Lake City Event

Ranked 29th

FIM District Traverse City Event

Ranked 15th of 40
Creativity Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation

2023

Team 8041 Robot 2023 - Melman

Melman

FIM District Traverse City Event

Ranked 24th

FIM District LSSU Event

Ranked 20th
Alliance: 2nd pick of #5 (w/ 7782, 6121)
Strong finish in Playoffs Round 5

2022

Team 8041 Robot 2022

Rapid Bot

FIM District Muskegon Event presented by Renk

Ranked 33rd

FIM District Traverse City Event

Ranked 18th
Alliance: 2nd pick of #4 (w/ 4377, 3618)
Eliminated in the semifinals, 2-2 in playoffs

2021

Infinite Recharge at Home

Remote skills challenges

No in-person competition. Teams ran remote skills challenges (Galactic Search, Auto-Nav, Hyperdrive, Interstellar Accuracy, Power Port) from their own shops and submitted results.
Team 8041 finished 18 of 22 in its challenge group.

Full matches came back in 2022.

2020

Infinite Recharge

Rookie season robot

FIM District Traverse City Event, Feb 27-29, 2020

Ranked 23rd of 39
Record 6-6-0
Rookie All Star Award

FIM District Muskegon Event, Mar 12-14, 2020

Cancelled. COVID-19 ended the season one week before the event.

Our rookie year. One event, one award, and then the world shut down.