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TechOlympics

TechOlympics is an information technology (IT) conference for high school students. It connects students with IT professionals and with companies in order to promote the field of IT. The conference was originally held at the Millennium Hotel from 2010–2019, until it was moved to the Great American Ball Park in 2020. The conference went virtual in 2021 and remained virtual in 2022 due to the global pandemic.[1][2][3] In 2023, TechOlympics returned to the Great American Ball Park. The 2024 conference changed the venue again to the Procter & Gamble Global Headquarters in Cincinnati, where it will remain for TechOlympics 2025.[4] The event is run by the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati, a non-profit organization seeking to empower students through a robust knowledge of IT. Colleges and other organizations are present at the event as well. Schools often attend as groups, but individual attendance is also permitted. The conference takes place over the course of one weekend, starting of Friday and going until midday Sunday. The events that take place during the conference fall into one of five categories: a Breakout, a Competition, a Workshop, a Showcase Demonstration, or a Speaker Presentation. However, there are other events that do not fit into one of these categories. Each year, the theme of the conference changes, and as such, so do the Breakouts and competitions offered, as well as the speakers presenting.[5][6][7][8]

TechOlympics
TechOlympics 2018: Imagine logo
StatusActive
GenreConference
Dates2010–present
FrequencyAnnually
VenueProcter & Gamble Headquarters
Location(s)Cincinnati, Ohio
CountryUnited States of America
Years active13
Founded2010
Most recent2024
Next event2025
Attendance~550
AreaGreater Cincinnati
Organised byINTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati
Filing statusNon-profit
WebsiteOfficial Website
Current Theme (2025): Inspire

Breakouts

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TechOlympics offers the opportunity for students to learn from professionals through breakouts. Breakouts are talks that typically last one hour long and generally focus on IT. A selected list of topics covered in past breakouts is provided below.[9][10]

Competitions

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TechOlympics is home to many competitions ranging from Wikiracing to competitive hacking. Below is a selected list of competitions.[11] Notably, the logo for next year's TechOlympics is designed at the year's conference during one of these competitions.

Showcase demonstrations

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A showcase project is large project that a group of students, often from the same school, take part in working on, in order to present the project to a panel of judges. This project is in competition with other projects to be the best project submitted. Winning this event is seen as a very important feat during the conference.

Workshops

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For the past few years TechOlympics has offered workshops, bringing in professionals to teach students a skill. A selected list of past topics can be found below.

Speaker presentations

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Generally, after each meal, students will hear from a speaker, often one with an IT background, that discusses the merits of entering the IT field.

Yearly themes

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In the first year, the event had no theme and was simply titled "TechOlympics Expo 2010".[12] Subsequent years were similarly titled by the year they took place, until 2015, which began a tradition of declaring event themes, starting with "Connect".[13]

Year Theme Source
2015 Connect [13]
2016 Accelerate [14]
2017 Amplify [15]
2018 Imagine [16]
2019 Level Up [17][18]
2020 Activate [1]
2021 Illuminate [2]
2022 BYTE Back [19]
2023 Electrify [20]
2024 Empower [21][22]
2025 Inspire [23]

References

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  1. ^ a b "INTERalliance Presents TechOlympics 2020: ACTIVATE". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
  2. ^ a b "INTERalliance Announces TechOlympics 2021: Illuminate". GlobeNewswire News Room. 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
  3. ^ "Demolition of Millennium Hotel underway". Fox 19. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
  4. ^ "Home - TechOlympics 2025". TechOlympics.org. INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  5. ^ Jones, Hannah (2012-03-12). "Talented students show off skills at Tech Olympics". Local12.com. Cincinnati, Ohio. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  6. ^ Heyne, Mark (2015-02-02). "TechOlympics provides students with look at Information Technolgy [sic] careers". WVXU. Cincinnati, Ohio. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  7. ^ "INTERalliance hosts TechOlympics Expo for area students". Cincinnati, Ohio: Cincinnati Business Courier. 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  8. ^ Gundrum, Kyle (2017-07-06). INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati: Connecting High School Students with Information Technology Career Pathways (MS). University of Cincinnati. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  9. ^ "For Speakers - TechOlympics 2025". TechOlympics.org. INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  10. ^ "Master Schedule - TechOlympics 2025". TechOlympics.org. INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  11. ^ "Competitions". Competitions - TechOlympics 2019. INTERalliance. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  12. ^ "TechOlympics Expo 2010". TechOlympics. Archived from the original on 2009-12-30.
  13. ^ a b "Join us at TechOlympics | TechOlympics Expo 2015". TechOlympics. Archived from the original on 2014-12-22.
  14. ^ "Join us at TechOlympics | TechOlympics Expo 2016". TechOlympics. Archived from the original on 2015-12-12.
  15. ^ "TechOlympics | TechOlympics". TechOlympics. Archived from the original on 2017-05-24.
  16. ^ "TechOlympics 2018 – The nation's largest student-run tech conference". TechOlympics. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13.
  17. ^ "TechOlympics 2019 – The nation's largest student-run tech conference". TechOlympics. Archived from the original on 2019-01-03.
  18. ^ Badlani, Neil. "CCDS Students 'LEVEL UP' at TechOlympics". The Scroll. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  19. ^ Cincinnati, INTERalliance of Greater (2022-01-17). "INTERalliance Announces TechOlympics 2022: BYTE Back". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  20. ^ "High-schoolers compete in everything from editing to engineering in TechOlympics". 2023-02-19. Archived from the original on 2023-03-16. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  21. ^ "'TechOlympics 2024: Empower' is the nation's largest tech conference for high school students". WLWT. 2024-02-17. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  22. ^ INTERAlliance Tech Olympics 2024 are this Weekend - Local Teens Compete, 2024-02-14, retrieved 2024-02-20
  23. ^ "Home - TechOlympics 2025". TechOlympics.org. INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
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