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Boca Art Museum receives $1 million gift to boost education programs

Another development working on a partnership with the museum is the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC), west of Interstate 95 on Yamato Road. The former birthplace of IBM’s personal computer, the campus now is being revamped to be a centerpiece not only of business but also of culture, according to Angelo Bianco, managing partner of Crocker Partners, which owns BRiC. Lippman said talks are underway to install a sculpture outside the main building.

BRiC Leading the Way

At the home of the old Boca Raton economy, the talk was about the new Boca Raton economy. Two weeks ago, Crocker Partners – which owns the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC) — hosted a discussion titled “Leading the Way in STEM Education.” STEM is the longtime acronym for science, technology, engineering and medicine. A new version adds Arts and calls it STEAM.

The Acorn That Put Boca On The Map

The IBM story in Boca Raton began in the late ‘60s when then-Chairman of the Board of IBM, Thomas Watson, announced the company would open a manufacturing facility here to produce its 550 Model 20 Midsize computer. That site, now the Boca Raton Innovation Campus, was designed by renowned architects Marcel Breuer and Robert Gatje, and at its peak covered 3.6 million square feet in more than 40 buildings. It would be big for Boca. But no one knew how big.