Information Age Learning Center

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“Infoage is a unique collection of over fifteen museums and exhibits focused primarily on the preservation and education of communications and electronics technology (think stem) and the almost 100-year history of service of our site to defense of the united states. Our 35-acre campus is located on the camp evans national landmark and new jersey's world war ii living memorial and contains 28 major buildings and dozens of smaller buildings to include the unique westminster fuller designed dymaxion deployment units (ddu). At present, there is over 43,000 square feet of museum and exhibit space; the opening of the electronic warfare/radar pavilion in 2022 will add another 4,000 square feet of interactive and hands-on exhibit space. To manage this sizeable campus takes a dedicated board, staff and volunteers. Infoage has an eighteen member fully engaged board with diverse experience, education and background that lends itself not only to our primary mission but also our sub-missions. Our staff is composed of two full time employees (a facility manager and an administrator) and three part time employees (the ceo, a janitor and a greeter) who work a total of 30 hours per week, 20, 5 and 5 respectively. However, the backbone of infoage is its volunteers. In 2021 over 200 infoage volunteers contributed over 26,000 hours of their time working to increase the infoage experience. In spite of the covid 19 virus that has caused other museums and learning centers to close or reduce hours, infoage not only survived but remains open and vibrant!! We reopened august 1, 2020 and have been open ever since, steadily seeing ever increasing numbers of visitors, schools, scout troops, and senior and civic groups. We continued our stem mission by modifying our business model to include virtual and live on-line presentations as we continued our on-site and visiting programs to schools and civic and veteran groups. Schools from new york (rockland and brooklyn), north jersey (bayonne), and the monmouth and ocean county areas were some of the first to visit in 2021. Infoage also hosted numerous boy scout troops from wall, howell, freehold and various other monmouth county communities to assist the scouts to attain merit badges. Sea cadets now call infoage home as they receive monthly classes, lectures and presentations on a variety of stem subjects. Throughout the year we hosted in-person and in-house events: wall of honor reception; held in october, 95 attendees honored engineers and scientists who, by their life's work, have made significant contributions to the defense of our nation with their accomplishments at the us army's former camp evans and fort monmouth. In addition we honored two other extremely deserving citizens with our patriot and chairman's award. Vintage computer fest (vcf) - east: this three day event hosted over 650 attendees and they saw a conference packed with great speakers. Vcf moved the audio - visual recording to a whole new level with live streaming, improved indoor lighting, better microphones and higher quality audio. Recordings for all the speakers are available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/vintagecomputerfederation501c3. Vcf also hosted swap and repair meets throughout the year. "space exploration week": this annual infoage week long summer program was a huge success as grammar school students learned about the universe around us and were able to bounce their names off the moon using our 60' tlm-18 radio telescope. "camp invention": infoage hosted this confidence-boosting stem summer camp where kids built creative inventions and lasting friendships. The camps offer new and exciting hands-on activities every year and the principal certified educator was an infoage volunteer. Camp invention will be back at infoage in 2022. 911 20th anniversary observance: on september 11 we had a hard opening of our nj 911 remembrance & memorial exhibit. The exhibit allows visitors to relive the terrible attack on the world trade cen”