The Innovation Trail

01/11/2024

A huge thank you to our exclusive banking sponsor at the Gold Champion of Innovation level, for bringing together this innovative and enthusiastic group for the Innovation Scavenger hunt this past Wednesday! SVB has been a lead sponsor of the Innovation Trail since its inception and it’s no wonder with their work with start ups and innovators to change the world. A special shout out to for organizing this event. We saw a lot of bumping and connecting out there!

31/10/2024

Hoping to collect Junior Mints tonight trick or treating? Did you know that every Junior Mint in the world is made in Cambridge? Cambridge was once the home of 66 different candy companies but now there is only one left, owned by Tootsie Brands. Learn more on the Innovation Trail!

30/10/2024

Another happy partner out on the Trail! Thank you for your support and .

Posted • Thank you for the tour of Kendall Square yesterday! The team had the best time with our guide, Alissa, and enjoyed learning about all of the history and innovation in the area.

Special shout out to our tenant .inc who is at stop #20 on the tour! Be sure to check out their display in the lobby at 700 Main Street next time you’re in the neighborhood.

23/10/2024

Congratulations to Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard on your 20th anniversary! We are so lucky to have you here in MA and on the Innovation Trail!

Last night, Boston's Prudential building lit up “Broad blue” to celebrate our 20th anniversary! We're proud to be part of the vibrant Massachusetts life sciences ecosystem, making an impact both locally and globally. Thank you to this amazing community for your collaboration and inspiration over the past two decades!

18/10/2024

Thank you to the students of the 4 Amazing Centuries of Boston Innovation Seminar at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement for joining us on the Innovation Trail this week! Innovation Trail co-founder, Bob Krim, leads this seminar along with David Mann. Thank you to founder for leading the group along the Trail!

07/10/2024

Check out Innovation Trail co-founder Scott Kirsner on Workbar's Setting the Bar podcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_9PxvXMb9A

What do a wrench, a radio, and a polaroid camera have in common? Watch this episode of Setting the Bar with Scott Kirsner to find out!

03/10/2024

Did you miss the fun this past weekend? Don’t worry! We’re running our new Scavenger Hunt again this Sunday! Register here: https://bit.ly/4dunCFQ

02/10/2024

Have you experienced the Innovation Trail? Tell us about it! Thank you .kinsella !

Posted • .kinsella For today’s walk I decided to follow a modified version of the Boston Innovation Trail (theinnovationtrail.org). This is an incredibly thoroughly researched and engaging walk that takes you through many of the world changing innovations that came from Boston - e.g. the first color movie, the telephone, anesthesia, CRISPR, the Human Genome Project, the guidance software that landed humans on the moon, mRNA, the Polaroid instant camera, and more. I stretched the walk to six miles with several of my own detours, but it can be done much more efficiently. The website includes a map with a description and audio for each stop.

I plan to return in the next couple weeks and see if I can take some artsy photos from the trail. Great work and .

30/09/2024

We couldn’t have asked for better weather or a better crowd for our Family Scavenger Hunt this past Saturday! Thank you to and for sponsoring this event. It was such a success that we’re doing it again this Sunday- join us! Register here: https://bit.ly/4dunCFQ

27/09/2024

Thank you to our Lead Sponsors for tomorrow’s Family Scavenger Hunt!

Join us during the ! Bring the whole family — including teens! — for a fun-filled scavenger hunt along the Innovation Trail in Kendall Square! Scavenger hunt teams, which can be families or groups of friends, will use the Goosechase mobile app to visit places, solve challenges, and snap photos while learning about Kendall’s impressive innovation past, present, and future. Your goal: collect the most points in one hour. Prizes will be given to first, second, and third place but everyone will walk away feeling like a winner and ready to innovate! Link in the bio to register.

23/09/2024

📣Only 10 spots left!📣 Join us during the ! Bring the whole family — including teens! — for a fun-filled scavenger hunt along the Innovation Trail in Kendall Square! Scavenger hunt teams, which can be families or groups of friends, will use the Goosechase mobile app to visit places, solve challenges, and snap photos while learning about Kendall’s impressive innovation past, present, and future. Your goal: collect the most points in one hour. Prizes will be given to first, second, and third place but everyone will walk away feeling like a winner and ready to innovate! Register here https://bit.ly/3XbunX1

18/09/2024

We were honored to attend the launch of the Massachusetts 250 Campaign yesterday and to be a part of the celebration over the next two years!

Posted • A state of firsts and a state of innovations, there’s no better place to celebrate the 250th anniversary of America, than right here in Massachusetts! Thrilled to kick off with , , and others from the Healey-Driscoll Administration.

12/09/2024

Join us during the Cambridge Science Festival ! Bring the whole family — including teens! — for a fun-filled scavenger hunt along the Innovation Trail in Kendall Square! Scavenger hunt teams, which can be families or groups of friends, will use the Goosechase mobile app to visit places, solve challenges, and snap photos while learning about Kendall’s impressive innovation past, present, and future. Your goal: collect the most points in one hour. Prizes will be given to first, second, and third place but everyone will walk away feeling like a winner and ready to innovate! Register here: https://bit.ly/3XbunX1

09/09/2024

It's the Innovation Trail but with a caffeinated twist!

If you live or work in the Boston area and haven’t yet experienced The Innovation Trail, this is my rallying cry for you to check it out this fall. This Boston/Cambridge walking tour takes you on a…

06/09/2024

The Innovation Trail's Summer Design Fellow, Lindsay Crockett, takes you on a quick tour of six free displays that you can see along the Cambridge side of The Innovation Trail created by: Lab Central, Broad Discovery Center, The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Draper, and BXP. Check it out!

Lindsay Crockett takes you on a quick tour of six free displays that you can see along the Cambridge side of The Innovation Trail, created by:• LabCentral• T...

26/08/2024

Here's a quick note thanking all of our corporate sponsors and partners, who help to bring the Innovation Trail to life. Your support is fueling creativity, collaboration, and highlighting the history of groundbreaking ideas in Cambridge and Boston both. We’re grateful for your commitment to driving innovation forward and telling the stories of our great cities!

11/08/2024

Such a fun tour group today as part of Boston… visited the Verizon Museum of Innovation in Communication and Mass General’s Russell Museum. Thanks to Draper for their support of a fantastic day of learning!

09/08/2024

We're looking forward to seeing you all this weekend for our special tour in collaboration with History Camp. Tickets for History Camp are sold out, but you can still join us for an excursion into Boston's innovation history. This tour will include a special visit to the Verizon Museum of Innovation in Communications, which is not regularly open to the public, so don't miss out!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bostons-innovation-trail-special-tour-in-collaboration-with-history-camp-tickets-843487723487?aff=oddtdtcreator

07/08/2024

Rainy days got you down? Even if you can't join us outside on the Trail, you can still learn all about the technological innovations coming out of Boston and Cambridge with our podcast on Spotify. Check out the link below to start listenin' and learnin' today!

https://open.spotify.com/show/6AAmVuA5j4BA0SjNQ8PXHl?si=8a87c4aade114bc3

23/07/2024

The only NASA site to ever get shut down was planned to be in Kendall Square. The space agency's Electronics Research Center was set up in the 1960s and comprised of ten laboratories used to study instrumentation, communications, data processing, navigation, guidance, and control. After a deeply contentious period of operation, the ERC was closed after a round of Nixon-era budget cuts in 1970.

Today the former NASA ERC building exists as the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. The building has since undergone a complete renovation led by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Kendall Square sure looks a lot different today than it did back then, huh?

Photos courtesy of and

22/07/2024

There's a LOT of information to cover on the Trail. Maybe you're not too keen to learn about one subject and you'd like to focus on another instead. We're happy to work with you and your team to design a custom tour that fits your interests and needs!

We're happy to work with you and your team to design a custom tour that fits your interests. Just answer a few questions on what you're looking for and we'll work on getting you plugged into the history being made every day on in Boston and Cambridge.

21/07/2024

It's National Ice Cream Day! We're not sure who comes up with these holidays, but we're not complaining. It gives us the opportunity to talk about the ice cream's sweet start in Cambridge. Learn the connection on the Trail and stop in for a scoop with our friends at Toscanini's.

16/07/2024

Cambridge, Massachusetts: so much to discover, a lot to unpack! We were so excited to join our friends at the Cambridge Office for Tourism for the launch of their new brand identity and "Unpack" campaign last week. The new logo speaks to Cambridge's unique history, while the brand colors reflect Cambridge's vibrancy and diversity. What do you think about the new look? ✨

09/07/2024

If you weren't already aware, Cambridge has a pretty sweet history. Throughout much of the 1800s, Cambridge was one of the country's manufacturing centers, producing everything from bicycle tires, fire hoses, soap, and pianos, as well as sweet treats like ice cream and candy. At one point, there were 66 candy companies in Cambridge, making candy hearts, Squirrel Nut Zippers, lemon drops, and so much more. Today, just one candy factory remains at 810 Main Street, producing the famous Junior Mints. This, and other morsels of confectionary chronicles to be learned along the Trail ✨

Learn more about the Trail: https://www.theinnovationtrail.org/
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