Nick Berg Initiative · Nick Berg Memorial Scholarship
Nick Berg Friend, Philosopher, Dreamer, Achiever
A memorial to Nicholas Berg, 1978 to 2004. Engineer, tower climber, inventor of duct-tape circuit boards, and a friend to a remarkable number of people. This site keeps his stories, and funds a scholarship in his name.
Awarded to a Henderson High School senior who is active in the music program and curious about the sciences. See every recipient since 2005.
Who was Berg?
Nick grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania, played baritone sax in the Henderson marching band, studied engineering at Cornell, Drexel, and Penn, and ran his own tower company, Prometheus Methods Tower Service. He biked hundreds of miles for fun, built logic circuits out of transistors and duct tape, gave his food away in Ghana, and went to Iraq in 2003 and 2004 to help rebuild broadcast towers on his own dime.
He was killed in Iraq in May 2004. The people who knew him started this site that same month, and the scholarship the following spring.
Door alarms, invert alerts, and a truth detector
The contraptions, plus a few you can press.
AnecdotesStories from the people who knew him
Forty-some memories from band camp to the Kimmel Center.
In His Own WordsNick's emails from the road
Prometheus Towers, Nairobi, Amman, and Mosul, 2002 to 2004.
A mitzvah, in its simplest definition, is a worthy and good deed.
Berg often looked for excuses to perform a mitzvah or go out of his way to make someone else's day better. If nothing else, honor this good man with a mitzvah of your own today.
Thank you
To everyone who has given to this fund since 2004, written to this site, sent a photo, played a benefit show, or sat on the scholarship committee: thank you. The fund exists because of you.
A special thank you to Peter Katz, whose song "Forgiveness" and years of benefit concerts have carried this fund further than we could have alone.
Watch the short film about Nick by Azim Siddiqui.
Keep the fund going
Every dollar goes to the Nick Berg Memorial Scholarship. Contributions are tax deductible.