Invest today for innovation tomorrow

Become a friend of TechWorks! Share your talent, time, or resources to inspire inventors and problem solvers!

Call the TechWorks! team at 607-723-8600 or email info@ctandi.org to explore joining the TechWorks! family. Your time & talents can be the key to a young adult’s future

TechWorks! actively collects workplace stories, documents, photographs, and artifacts from Central New York inventors & companies - any technology - any time frame. Our only collection filter is geography: we focus on technologies connected to or rooted in Central New York State.

There are several ways to support the Center’s work financially:

  • Mail a check to Center for Technology & Innovation to CT&I, 321 Water Street, Binghamton, NY 13901;

  • Donate securely online — click any blue SUPPORT button on this website; or

  • Make a gift of securities or a charitable distribution. Work with our broker — Cheevers, Hand, & Angeline Investments — at 607-754-7550 or call 607-723-8600 to discuss your goals in becoming a Friend of TechWorks! Click here for details of how a gift of publicly-traded securities might be right for you.

TechWorks! is operated by the Center for Technology & Innovation, an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization registered with the IRS and NYS Charities Bureau in 1994. All gifts are fully tax-deductible and may be eligible for matching grants from IBM and other employers. IBM Matching Grants program for employees’ donations is now online. Our team can help walk you through the process.

Keeping Technology in Action takes more than talent.

With your help, we can pair the energy of youth with the wisdom of veteran practitioners to keep the ideas and products of regional ingenuity alive.

$50

Support training workshops!

Where engineers mentor & teach real job skills including Python, Unity, hands-on mechanical engineering, and problem solving.

$100

TechWorks! takes more than talent!

Fuel operations for one winter day or two summer days

$500

Artifacts in Action

Help acquire, deliver, repair, find spare parts for practitioners working with BU Watson engineering students to restore vintage equipment and/or design/build visitor experiences.

$1000

Visitor Experiences

Design modern interfaces for visitors to operate vintage equipment

When in doubt, don’t throw it out!

Downsizing? Call or email to find a new home for the products, documents, photos, & mementos of your life’s work.

Phone #: 607-723-8600

Email: info@ctandi.org

Work in Progress

In 2024, we are focused on preparing TechWorks! for participatory visitor experiences.

  • Update Museum Concept Plan for next-gen TechWorks! galleries of dynamic displays of Central New York State pioneering innovations, including avionics, computing, evolving energy generation and storage, flight simulation, 3D imaging, photography, technology of music, space exploration and more.

  • Return Link Aviation Pilot Trainers from the 1940s, 1960s, and 1990s and Lockheed Martin helicopter trainer to flight status for coaching visitors.

  • Expand operations of Vintage IBM Computing Center equipment - IBM 1401 mainframe system to play music from punch cards, IBM System 360 Printer for visitors’ pre-digital selfies, IBM 1255 check sorter, and more.

  • Create a Pixel Place for visitors to play classic video games on vintage hardware consoles, powered by video chips designed by IBM Endicott engineers.

  • Reassemble Lunar Module Simulator visual system, on long term loan from National Air and Space Museum

  • Restore a Binghamton-built 1920s Link Silent Movie Theater Organ

Thank you for your generous spirit.

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