Thank you FedEx for a fascinating and thought-provoking tour. Five research fellows journeyed to Neville Island to learn more about the technology behind the accurate and safe delivery of packages. The tour was part of 5th grade Owen R-K’s fellows project to research and test a new identification system for students to ride the buses from the thirteen different school districts.

Our tour, conducted by the mentors on the project (Director of IT Robert Minford and senior project and process analysts Jeffrey Walter and Mark Bracken) included a peek into the software the tracks each package with a complex database and series of barcodes. Owen was joined by fellow programmers who will be helping later in the project. Jacob and Julia serve on the robotics fellows project working with Mindstorms. Rylee and Glorian are on the App Inventors project working with the MIT App Inventor software for android. Thank you again to FedEx for providing such great real world connections to what is being done in the lab!