HWCooling Techtour 2024
The HWCooling Techtour project was born out of a love of learning about computer hardware. And we are very interested in spreading it in schools. They themselves need it, so that the fire of love for technology is kindled in the students, who may later become top experts thanks to it. Apart from a brief discussion on related matters, this article also features large photo galleries from the places where we premiered.
We believe our regular readers know why we do HWCooling. Besides the fact that we really enjoy this work, we also want to bring expert information in areas that, shall we say, don’t get much space in the first place. And in addition to the space within the magazine, we think it’s important to plant those seeds in technical high schools as well. That is to say, where the future direction of the young people on whom the world will depend is being shaped.
HWCooling Techtour. Why?
After personal experience of working in a school for several years and hearing from ambitious teachers with many years of experience, we came to a clear conclusion – let’s do our best to elevate vocational education in topics around computer hardware. This in a variety of ways, which our newly established project (HWCooling Techtour) is meant to cover.
The key is to take a current hardware topic and introduce it to school students in a way that makes this initiative useful for them to practice. The stumbling block for schools is that they don’t have good enough access to modern technology and effective teaching of the latest stuff, which we are addressing with our initiative. Obviously in a narrow spectrum around topics related to computer components.
For HWCooling Techtour 2024, we have put together an expert team of representatives from the multinational tech companies Intel and Gigabyte, with whom we have prepared expert lectures for the students. Professional, not commercial ones (those who have not been to the events and have a distorted idea of reality will probably be latching on to the latter).
Naturally, we had a lot of products/PC components onsite that are subject to purchase and sale, and yes, one of the companies was a store (Datacomp). But the latter was mainly there so that we could reward the students for their demonstrated knowledge and skills with valuable prizes that they would enjoy. And which may kindle an even greater fire in them. For all the students, already as HWCooling magazine, we prepared, produced and delivered, for example, large posters with a detailed breakdown of the individual components of a processor and a motherboard. This is something that is lacking in both theoretical and practical classes.
We know how to do it, we are willing to do it with love every year, and we hope that those who can help this worthwhile initiative will throw us a helping hand. We will be finding out what “value” these things have both with the local government (i.e., the provider of secondary education in the given districts) and probably with the Department of Education as well.
We will see, we will definitely fight and you will be able to see the result. The first year is certainly not the end of it, anyway, and we look forward to seeing more high schools next year, again on some other topic. Maybe with AMD and Nvidia? Time will tell. You can soak up the atmosphere of what has already happened (in relation to Intel Core Ultra 200S and Gigabyte Z890 motherboards) from the photo galleries below.
SOŠE Žilina
SPŠT Martin
SOŠE Liptovský Hrádok
Special thanks to Sony for the loan of the FE 16-35mm f/2.8 GM II lens. Although the quality of the photos does not represent its maximum technical capabilities (these are greatly reduced by the photographer’s abilities), it provided the main thing – wide-angle shots in the interiors of the individual schools.
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
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