The fastest student to get everything right wins. Those were the basic requirements for installing a cooler on a processor in a motherboard, a task in which secondary school students competed against one another, having shown the greatest knowledge, or rather the highest level of interactivity around computer hardware. At HWCooling Techtour ‘26, some truly nice moments arose here, accompanied by well-deserved rewards.
During the day of the HWCooling Techtour ‘26 conference, students at the schools earned points for their interaction, which were added up at the end. This was so that we could fairly select the three most active ones, for whom workstations for assembling a computer build were waiting.
It was a partial assembly: installing a cooler (DeepCool AK620 Digital SE) on a processor (AMD Ryzen 9600X) in a motherboard (Asus TUF Gaming B850-Plus), with Gabriel from TichéPC present. He was there to judge whether it would work in practice in the form in which the students handed it over. In other words, the point was for the coolers to be mounted and connected correctly. Whoever managed this first won, taking home not only the cooler but also the motherboard, and we believe some experience as well. The processor, which was also on site, then went to the most active student, who took the greatest part in the questions and answers during the blocks of talks.
Someone from the school in Poprad (Secondary Vocational Technical School) helped with the photos, for which we are truly grateful. Somehow it all got gathered and put together, so there is a nice picture of how it probably looked in Poprad and in Martin as well.
From Martin, we also have a video in which you can see the students’ skill in action. Besides the assembly sequence, for example, it also shows how they took part during the talks. This model was the same at both the school in Poprad and the school in Martin. Even though the ending is “cut off” due to an unexpected power outage, documentation of the course of events with a demonstration of the students’ skill exists. Physically, on site, everything was wrapped up, and the winner of the assembly from the Martin school is also enjoying a well-deserved prize.
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
