Invest today for innovation tomorrow
Become a friend of TechWorks! Share your talent, time, or resources to inspire inventors and problem solvers!
Sharing skills with the community
In 2025, we brought giant paperclip making to RumblePonies summer STEM night and BU Battery Week October STEM event. We routinely host Artifacts in Action tours for High Schools and Senior Living Centers. Call us to arrange a visit.
NYS Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo hosted a TechWorks! tour for NYS Assembly Committee Chairs as warm-up to a September Endicott economic development planning meeting at BU.
Sharing ideas & resources globally
In 2025, partnerships with the London Science Museum and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum gained momentum in documenting NASA’s early days, including work at IBM Owego, General Precision Link, Ansco-GAF film, and others.
At NorthEast Astronomy Forum (NEAF 2025), Frank Hughes presented a lecture on his book & our Apollo-era team staffed TechWorks! booth.
In October, London team filmed conversations between Fred Haise, Apollo 13 astronaut, and Frank Hughes, retired NASA Chief of Space Flight Training, also a Center Board member. London’s interview with Gene Abbey, Manager of Lunar Module component of Apollo Mission Simulator for GP-Link Aviation, was filmed at TechWorks!, who stepped up to host the project during the Federal government shut-down.
YOUR MEMORIES MATTER!
Please join us for a conversation about your career and your family. TechWorks! actively collects and archives workplace stories, documents, photographs, and artifacts from Central New York - any technology - any time frame. Our collection filter is geography: we focus on ideas connected to and rooted in Central New York State.
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
$50
Support training workshops!
Where engineers mentor & teach real job skills including Python, Unity, hands-on mechanical engineering, and problem solving.
$100
TechWorks! operations take 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 - such as capturing pre-digital selfies on a 1960s' IBM System 360 printing
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
Thank you for your generous spirit.
Record your stories | Share your mementos | Support
There are several ways to financially support the Center’s work:
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.