TechWorks! Events
Binghamton 6th Graders Visit TechWorks! - November 2019
Split across four separate sessions, a total of ~300 sixth grade students from Binghamton’s East and West Middle Schools spent an afternoon at TechWorks!, enjoying a breadth of educational activities.
Families and individuals enjoy an escorted 10-mile bicycle ride around Binghamton, starting and ending at TechWorks!
Local officials and TechWorks! board members join in celebrating the dedication of our outdoor Big Map Mural. Come see it for yourselves!
Co-hosted by TechWorks!, participants enjoy a family-friendly escorted bicycle ride along the rivers, over landmark bridges and through downtown Binghamton, stopping to rest at points of interest with expert guides along the way.
Visitors experience everything TechWorks! has to offer, including the Australian bobsled used in the 2014 Sochi Olympics, designed by local Olympian Randy Will, built in Johnson City, and painted by Broome/Tioga BOCES students.
Randy Will and family at a presentation he gave regarding his Olympic experiences.
A few dozen members of of BU’s Theta Tau engineering fraternity volunteered at TechWorks! to check many items off our “To-Do” list. Thank you, one and all!
Taught by industry experts and BU students, participants learn how to code their own video games using free Unity software, in prep for the Global Game Jam in late January, 2018.
As part of the NYS Paths Through History Weekend, TechWorks! offered an event highlighting local inventors of pioneering vehicles such as an electric car and motorcycle, Olympic bobsled, and the Apollo Lunar Module Simulator.
About two dozen local breweries joined in sampling their wares to a crowd of TechWorks! friends in one of our most popular events. Several local restaurants provided complementing finger foods as well.
With assistance from United Way and other volunteers, local artist Joanne Arnold creates her “Four Seasons Along the Chenango River” mural on the floodwall at the end of the TechWorks! parking lot.
Under the railroad trestle, on a shed wall facing almost directly south, TechWorks! has implemented a Solar Clock (sundial) — but it only works during the daytime! 8^)