The overall model is 95% complete and today is Team Poster Time. The team worked on the final design of the poster. We decided to add the team member profiles on the left and the FIRST values on the right. The kids got quizzed on if they could name the values in the last FIRST event, so we want to make sure we have them handy.

We suggested that the kids do a schematic representation of our CARGO CONNECT project. With that, we asked them to identify the key components and put them together, which turned out to be:

1. Distribution Center
   Vertical conveyer belt with slides to deliver boxes to the houses with gravity)

2. Color Sorter
   The small conveyer belt with a color sensor instructs the Distribution Center to which color house the box goes

3. Control Center
   A recent addition by the team to have a tower overseeing the activities. It has space for two staff members and t, here is a lot of coffee available

4. Bucket Loader
   Our delivery system for new boxes.

5. Warehouse
   The building with the spinning planets. We wind up using it to store the empty buckets

6. Forklift
   The autonomous delivery system picking up buckets from the Bucket Loader, driving them to the Color Sorter, emptying them, before bringing the empty buckets to the Warehouse 

The components are connected with color-coded routes:

1. The White Delivery Route (black in the poster) - going from Bucket Loader to Color Sorter

2. The Blue Drop Off Route - Going from Color Sorter to Warehouse

3. the Red Return Route - Going from Warehouse to Bucket Loader to repeat the cycle

As always - the session was fun and productive. For the next and last session before the next FIRST event (due to spring break activities), we have two main tasks (1) finishing programming the sensor for the bucket loader and (2) doing an end-to-end video of the project.