Nonprofit camp for 6-13 yr old boys & girls, from low income families in Middlesex Co.
NJCATE, A National Center for Advanced Technological Education, is pleased to announce TechXporation, the four-week summer camp where teen girls design, develop and construct a working model of a fairgrounds ride, visit a theme park to better understand how amusement park rides work, learn from women who are working in engineering fields, and practice Karate as an integral part of the summer camp.
Early historyEdison Township, comprising former sections of Piscataway and Woodbridge townships, was settled in the 17th Century. The earliest village was Piscatawaytown, which is centered around St. James Church and the Piscatawaytown Common near the intersection of Plainfield and Woodbridge avenues in south Edison. The Laing House of Plainfield Plantation, the Benjamin Shotwell House, and the Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge, are buildings from the colonial era included in National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County. The community was previously known as "Raritan Township", not be confused with the current-day Raritan Township in Hunterdon County. The Edison eraReplica of Edison's laboratory, where he invented the first commercially practical lightbulb. Henry Ford, Edison's longtime friend, built it at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. In 1876, Thomas Alva Edison set up his home and research laboratory on the site of an unsuccessful real estate development in Raritan Township called Menlo Park. While there he earned the nickname "the Wizard of Menlo Park." Before his death at age 83 in 1931, the prolific inventor amassed a record 1,093 patents for creations including the phonograph, a stock ticker, the motion-picture camera, the incandescent lightbulb, a mechanical vote counter, the alkaline storage battery including one for an electric car, and the first commercial electric light.