12/21/2025
This was a BIG year for The Innovation Trail, and we wanted to recap some of the things we did in 2025, thanks to your support.
• We created a brand-new one hour walking tour in Downtown Boston, as well as a scavenger hunt activity, and ran them over the summer and fall with private groups and tourists. (Kudos to Raine Bernhard and Ben Maitland-Lewis of SVB for their help!)
• With funding from the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism, we created a series of videos about other revolutions that our state helped spark — in sports, social change, healthcare, and more. (See our YouTube channel, linked below.)
• Took part in the Governor’s Conference on Travel and Tourism, where Gov. Maura Healey presented our co-founder, Dr. Bob Krim, with a special “award of appreciation” for his impact on the tourism industry.
• Supported BioMed Realty and artist Yetti Frenkel in creating new large-scale murals in Kendall Square celebrating innovators like Edwin Land, Julia Child, Ellen Swallow Richards, and more.
• Ran our biggest walking tour to date, as part of Boston Harborfest in July. Like many of our tours, it included a cohort of students — a group from Cambridge Public Schools.
• Worked with the Museum of Science to create a free evening event looking at how the American Revolution laid the foundation for Boston’s culture of innovation, featuring Jasmine (Jazz) Dottin and Robert Allison as speakers.
• Brought on an amazing executive director, Alham Saadat, in October — a scientist, bioethicist, and non-profit leader who was previously at the Broad Institute.
• Organized the first-ever Tech Pioneers Reunion with our friends at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation. Gov. Michael Dukakis even showed up!
• Just in time for Halloween, we released a series of videos focused on Cambridge’s candy-making history… tasting different candies invented in the city with a group historians and food writers. (Link below.)
• Celebrated our board member Namrata Sengupta, Ph.D., who was awarded the Founder's Award this year from the Kendall Square Association.
• Began convening all of the great science centers and museums in the Boston area to better promote our city as THE place to visit if you — or your kids — are interested in STEM. We want to build momentum and better promote this idea in 2026, but we’ve already created a page on our website that lists them all. How many have you been to?
We’d love to see you at one of our events in 2026 — or set up a tour for a special group. You can keep tabs with what’s new here on FB, onLinkedIn, Instagram, or YouTube.
Also, this December has been our best month ever for individual donations since we were founded. Thanks, as always, for your support!
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