Season 9 (2023 - 2024)

Team 5980 is ready to achieve peak performance for this year's challenge called "Crescendo!"  Click to view our season calendar, including our FRC Kickoff page.  To view the parents meeting presentation from 10 January 2024, click here.  In preparation for the competition season, resolve logistics, and gather signatures, the team had an all-hands meeting on 28 February, 2024.  To see the presentation, click here.

Pioneer Points - In the pre-season of the 2024 competition season, FRC 5980 launched a new initiative to incentivize students to learn about the greatest inventors and the geopolitical events impacting us today to help further develop the next generation of global technology leaders.  Read about our program here and the award celebration here.

Also in the preseason, 5980 initiated video calls with 17 global teams, helping many teams with understanding how to fundraise and how to develop a business plan.  All participants gained significant global and cultural awareness.  FRC 5980 connected with the following teams:

• Team Colombia

• MegaZord (FRC team from Brazil)

• Team Greece

• Team China

• Team Ukraine

• Team Austria

• Team Turkmenistan

• Team Great Britain

• Team Peru

• Team Algeria

• Team Chile

• Team Iceland

• Team Slovenia

• Team Serbia

• Team Trinidad and Tobago

• Team India

• Team Iran

Competitions

Lake City (FiM) District Competition - Lake City, MI - March 8-10, 2024 (Sat-Sun)

• Robot results - FRC 5980 finished qualification matches ranked 31st with a record of 4-8.  As is often the case, the rank and the score don't fully capture how well the team or the robot performed.  In several matches, bad luck set in where 5980 scored more than the other 2 alliance partners combined, but it wasn't quite enough.  5980 also figured out how to do a double-score auton.  Very impressive foundation for our next event.  Overall, the team is very happy with the robot's performance.

• Dean's List Award - Henry F. and Joel F. both were nominated by the mentors for the Dean's List Award.  Both interviewed extremely well, with Henry being chosen by the judges as the overall event winner, marking the first time for this award in our team's history.  Henry F. will compete at the State championships for this award against all of the other district event winners.

• Check out the competition results on the Blue Alliance 2024 FiM Lake City District page.

West Michigan (FiM) District Competition - GVSU-Allendale - March 21-23, 2024 (Fri-Sun)

• Robot Results - Team 5980 finished qualification matches ranked 33rd with a record of 4-8.  We seemed to get more than our fair share of bad luck, but that's they way alliance pairings often times go.  We enjoyed the run.

• Check out the competition results on the Blue Alliance 2024 FiM West Michigan District page.

FIRST in Michigan District Championship - Saginaw Valley State University - April 4-6, 2024

• Dean's List Award - Henry F. competed for the Dean's List Award against all the other district competition winners.  While not selected to go to Worlds, Henry is our first ever Dean's List winner at a district competition.  Congratulations Henry!