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CHAMBER ADVOCACY WORK AND MEMBER NEWS

ESTABLISHING

A NETWORK

CONNECTION

TECH/ED COMMITTEE

IS COLLECTING
COMPUTERS
O

ne of the Chamber’s

most active and
engaged committees

is the Technology/Education
(Tech/Ed) Committee—a group

of professionals from inside and
outside the technology ield that

work as a team organized by the
MIDJersey Chamber of Com-

merce to nurture and support
the business environment in the

mid-Jersey region.
This year, Tech/Ed took its

goals a step further. The com-
mittee took on the challenge of

helping to collect, prepare, and

distribute 50 computers for Mer-
cer Street Friends to use in its

Trenton Digital Initiative. Com-
munity residents will have an

exciting opportunity—those who
MIDJersey Sta Per Sud Italia! participate in a variety of Mercer

Street Friends enrichment and
education programs will be able
(We’re going to Southern Italy!)
Ato take home a computer at no
charge.

The committee has numer-
ous events planned for the re- year after an educational, once-in-a-lifetime trip to Cuba, the MIDJersey
Chamber is packing its bags again—this time for a trip across the Atlantic
mainder of 2014 to collect used
computers and to also raise Ocean to Italy. In September, individuals and families from across the
United States will join our Chamber for a 12-day trip to Southern Italy and
awareness of both the Trenton
Digital Initiative and Mercer Sicily. Highlights include stops in Taormina, Alberobello, Pompeii, and the
Amali Coast, plus—of course!—regional wine with every dinner.
Street Friends.
These trips are extremely popular because they are all-inclusive: transportation to the
airport, roundtrip lights, meals, hotel accommodations, and excursions with educated
For more information, click on
the Tech/Ed Committee page at tour guides are all a part of the experience.

midjerseychamber.org to contact
co-chairs Michael DeCamillis Contact Jeff Richardson at 609.689.9960, ext. 16, for more information or to book your

and Jacqueline Zapicchi.
vacation today.

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