2025-04-04T09:47:27-04:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 050493695 RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC % Daniel John Berman RHOD 4017416997 1755 BALD HILL RD WARWICK RI 02886 Daniel Berman Director 2025-04-07 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Daniel John Berman 131 DUCK COVE RD N KINGSTOWN RI 02852 471963 false X www.ricomputermuseum.org X 1999 RI Our Mission is to inspire young people for the future workforce by saving old and new technology. The Rhode Island Computer Museum RICM is a nonprofit 501c3 organization established in 1999 in Rhode Island to preserve our rich vintage computer history and offer a glimpse of the past. RICMs mission statement is procuring and preserving items that relate to computer science and its history; disseminating knowledge and encouraging research in computer science by means of visits lectures discussions and publications. 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RICM and BlocksCAD provide STEM education workshops for children ages 10-14. The goal of this component is to teach children the basics of computer assisted design CAD with an easy-to-use blocks-based programming interface. RICM also signed a partnership agreement for Maker Faire. Developed online classes using Outschool as an Internet lifeline for more people than ever. Many older adults who do not have strong technology skills will need assistance to perform necessary activities online. Our goal is to assist older adults who need help with technology. 7693 0 0 HISTORIC PRESERVATION: Procured and preserved items that relate to computer science and its history was our goal. This included disseminating knowledge research and the restoration of serval rare computers. Restorations included analog computer PDP 9 Intel machine and others. Employees from Dassault Systmes returned in September to volunteer for another day of service below re-organizing and inventorying the contents of several boxes from the RICM text collections. We held several seminars. 17736 0 0 PARTNERSHIPS: In 2024 RICM completed several new partnerships including New England Tech and Dean College. 2024 was the fourth year of RICMs partnership with The Greenpower F24 program which aspires to advance education in the subjects of engineering and technology for young people ages 9 to 25. 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Part VI, Line 7a There were one or more persons other than the organizations governing body itself acting in such capacity that had the right to elect one or more members of the organizations governing body. Part VI, Line 12c We discuss and update our policies at each board meeting during the year. 1. We have been in the new space for one year as of July 1st. 2. We completed our July and August Summer Camps and it was a great success with North Kingstown. 3. We hosted the RI Maker Faire at the PVD Fest in Providence on Sept 8th. Parrot was a hit! 4. We set up a table at the Polaris Manufacturing Day at Farm Fresh attended by 500 HS students. 5. We set up a table at the National Guard Steam Event attended by 300 students. 6. We set up a table at CCRI for Cybernight on May 1st. 7. We set up a table at the OSHEAN Day at RIC on June 11th. 8. Held our second Atari night and second Oscilloscope night. 9. We are hosting the fall Greenpower Race on October 23rd. 10. We purchased 3 cars and they are due in November. 11. We continue to work with St Pauls and will hold a Halloween night Oct 28th. 12. We started an online training model called Outschool we have hosted 3 classes to date. 13. We bid on two state contracts for training and are also applying for grants Part VI, Line 19 RICM Uses GuideStar for look up of our nonprofit and access the most complete data available. Annual reports & policies are posted on the RICM web site.