Cool Tech Challenge

To spark an interest in HS students in tech disciplines, NEOSA created the CoolTech Challenge in 2008. Our inaugural effor was a website design contest.

The 2009 Challenge was once again a website design contest for area high school students, with the added wrinkle of judging sites on mobile devices for bonus points.

CoolTech Challenge winners and finalists shared in thousands of dollars in scholarship money, gift cards for cool gadgets, Chipotle burritos and an awesome NEOSA t-shirt! In total, NEOSA awarded more than $7000 in cash and prizes with the 2009 Challenge!

Almost 70 teams registered this year with close to 50 teams submitting sites to be reviewed by our judges. The 2009 judging group consisted of internet and IT professionals from American Greetings Itneractive, Aztek, Briteskies, iNomadics, Invacare, Rosetta Marketing Group, and the University of Akron.

To learn more about the 2009 CoolTech challenge, visit our website here.

Thanks to our Supporting Sponsors for 2009

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2008 Results
The contest period ran from February 25, 2008 to April 14, 2008. We received a total of twenty-six registered teams from six different schools in the region. Ultimately, twenty-one teams submitted sites for our judges to review.

We're proud to showcase our finalists and winning sites:

Finalists
Team Fighting Beavers

Team WontonRobots

Winners
Team ReymundGillison

Team DoItLater

Team DJYosto

Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, we provided t-shirts, Chipotle burritos, Best Buy gift cards and scholarship funds to our participants.

Our three winning teams shared in $5000 in scholarships!

Winners received their scholarship checks at the Best of Tech Awards on May 22.