Verizon Foundation Awards $75,000 to Chatham Marconi Maritime Center to Strengthen Student Achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Center to Partner with Educators to Teach K-12 Students About Communications Engineering and Design Through New STEM Curriculum

QUALCOMM HONORS VERIZON’S DICK LYNCH WITH $100,000 DONATION TO THE CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER

Qualcomm Makes Donation on Behalf of Dick Lynch, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Verizon, as part of its 25th Anniversary Technology Innovation Partner Award Program

Marconi Center wins $75K Grant

CHATHAM — With the economy increasingly hinged on technology, local students will have an advantage thanks to the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center. The center received a $75,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to strengthen student achievement in science, technology, engineering and math.

The Marconi Center to be on Channel 5 Boston as part of the "Chronicle" news magazine's Veterans Day Special -- November 11 at 7:30pm

It was Lights! Camera! Action! in early November at the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center when Kathy Bickimer, field producer from the WCVB-TV (Ch. 5) Chronicle news magazine focused on the Center's Navy exhibit displaying the fascinating story of the World War II years at what was then called Station 'C'. She interviewed Donna Lumpkin, whose father was chief radioman at the Chatham Station during World War II.

Chronicle will be broadcast at 7:30pm on November 11 as part of Channel Five's Veterans Day tribute.

Ericsson donates $100,000 to Marconi Center educational wing [from the Cape Cod Times, used with permission]

The Chatham Marconi Maritime Center received a $100,000 capital donation from Ericsson Inc. Wednesday for the museum's future educational wing.

New film explores Marconi station's 'super-secret' past [from the Cape Cod Times, used with permission]

CHATHAM — Early in World War II, German submarines waited off America's East Coast to sink convoys of tankers carrying vital oil to Great Britain.

The prowling U-boats sank 2,600 Allied merchant ships ferrying supplies to Britain and more than 30,000 merchant marine seamen died during the Battle for the Atlantic between 1939 to 1945, according to research by Ed Fouhy of Chatham.

The tides of war shifted against the U-boats in 1942, thanks to the U.S. Navy's listening post in Chatham which intercepted encrypted messages between the German high command and its Atlantic fleet.

Chatham station played pivotal WWII role [from boston.com (The Boston Globe), used with permission]

CHATHAM — During World War II, as London burned and German submarines circled like sharks off the Atlantic Coast, the US Navy plotted a secret attack against the Nazis.

In a nondescript red-brick building in this sleepy Cape Cod town, the Navy converted a wireless radio receiving station into an intelligence hub that intercepted coded messages from German submarines and transmitted them to Washington, D.C., to be analyzed. The initiative, which ran from 1942 until the end of the war, employed nearly 600 sailors. But what went on inside the station was so secret that the naval archives has almost no information on it, and many longtime Chatham residents are just hearing about it now.

Film Shows How Chatham Crews Helped Turn The Tide In ‘Battle Of The Atlantic’ [from the Cape Cod Chronicle, used with permission]

CHATHAM — A bulwark of confidence for his besieged countrymen during the second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill later admitted that one thing that truly frightened him was the U-boat peril. With England bracing itself for possible invasion and buying time until the U.S. joined the war, German submarines were destroying their very lifeline across the Atlantic. A new short film produced for the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center shows how a small group of young people in sleepy Chatham helped turn the tide of the Battle of the Atlantic.

Chatham's Marconi museum gets $100,000 gift [from the Cape Cod Times, used with permission]

NORTH CHATHAM — Two national wireless companies are investing in a small Cape museum as a way to entice young people to follow careers in science and engineering.

Qualcomm Inc., a wireless communications company that manufactures computer chips for cell phones, donated $100,000 Wednesday to the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center.

The gift was in the name of Richard Lynch, Verizon's chief technology officer and a wireless industry leader in the creation of cellular telephone networks and technologies.

Q-and-A with Verizon Chief Technical Officer [from the Cape Cod Times, used with permission]

A Wireless World [Editorial from the Cape Cod Chronicle]

Without the foundation of wireless radio, our world would be a much different place today. Imagine no cordless home phones, no cell phones, no wireless Internet. All of these technologies owe their existence to early communications pioneers such as Guglielmo Marconi, who ignored convention and followed their own visions to create technology that, in its day, was truly remarkable.

Marconi Center Lands Big Donation, Ponders Expansion [from the Cape Cod Chronicle, used with permission]

CHATHAM — Though it hasn’t technically had its grand opening yet, the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center (CMMC) is already pondering an expansion. The news comes as the center announces the receipt of a significant financial contribution this week.

"Time Capsule" opens in Chatham [from the Cape Cod Times, used with permission]

CHATHAM — For decades, few people really knew much about the work inside the red brick buildings near Ryder's Cove.

Workers at the former RCA buildings had signed confidentiality agreements about the ship-to-shore radio transmissions from around the world and, during World War II, German transmissions that, when decoded, helped save American convoys.

Starting Tuesday, everybody can find out about the telecommunications history made at the new Chatham Marconi Maritime Center, part of a global network built in 1914 by radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi.

Marconi museum begins construction in Chatham [from the Cape Cod Times, used with permission]

CHATHAM — Construction has started on the Chatham Marconi Maritime in North Chatham with completion expected in August. The new museum will focus on the history and science of radio communication in the 20th century and, in particular, Guglielmo Marconi. In 1914, the radio pioneer built the brick complex that, in its heyday, sent messages from WCC Chatham Radio to ships all around the world.