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Big Hero 6 and Minecraft Teaching STEM & Creating Future Makers & Manufacturing Interest

GlobalTranz

It began in a New Hampshire high school’s gym, with only 26 teams, and has grown over the years to over 32,000 teams, and more than 350,000 students. The FIRST team was given the opportunity to help out the producers and writers of Big Hero 6 and became their technical consultants. Every year they host a robotics competition.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 10-14, 2014)

Talking Logistics

We normally do our Talking Logistics episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but we have one today at 12 ET with Alaster Love from Transplace, where we are going to discuss “ Big Data and Analytics in Oil and Gas Transportation.” Teamsters step up union drive at FedEx Freight, Con-way (Reuters). Mexico Customs Management.