Posters are up, announcements sent, schools are getting ready. The HWCooling Techtour conference is a topic everywhere this initiative makes sense. Before the cameras turn on, we documented how things look in progress. Of course, only partly—there are many partial things this project consists of, and many will only be revealed after the conferences end, or remain visible exclusively at Slovak technical schools that “will be there.”
The venue of the HWCooling Techtour 2025 is starting to take sharper shape. This is also shown by various banners placed in the premises of the school that will host the conference.
In the cinema hall of SPŠT Martin there will be a live stream (video stream), which you will be able to watch too. We have already written a separate article about that. The fact that this concept is tailored to secondary schools remains unchanged. Therefore don’t expect the depth you are used to from our articles.
The goal is to present information in a way that even secondary school students — the main audience—can take something from it. Representatives of brands like Nvidia, MSI, HWiNFO, Endorfy, or Axagon will come for them. To talk about how things work and to show what they look like. We are also preparing thematic teaching aids, which teachers of related subjects can then use in their lessons. Back when I worked as a vocational training instructor, such materials were missing and I couldn’t find a way to get them. Now, however, we already have them in large numbers, so this is solved.
We will supply the participating schools with large-format boards showing the breakdown of a graphics card, a power supply, or a computer case. We worked on these in cooperation with the above-mentioned companies (to ensure everything is terminologically correct) and with regional education departments (to make it possible to finance production). You can see what these boards (or posters? They are flexible…) roughly look like in the HWCooling Techtour ’24 exhibition, which covered Intel processors (Arrow Lake) and Gigabyte motherboards (Z890). In Martin (at SPŠT) we even managed to synchronize the conference with the launch date of these components.
For this year we worked on the elements missing last year, and the posters will also include QR codes leading to articles that describe the basic principles of how individual components work. We believe that these materials too will contribute to students forming a better picture of what works and how. And who knows, maybe among them a “new Lisa Su” will be born. 🙂
Below are also photos of small (A2) posters, for example in the premises of the Secondary School of Electrical Engineering Žilina.
Or also in a classroom at the Alexander Dubček Elementary School or on the bulletin board of SPŠ Stará Turá, where we are starting and where we will find out whether “everything works as a team.” A short report with photos will later be published from this school too.
The Polytechnic Secondary School Martin points to the conference online, on its website. Thanks to all participating schools! Detailed documentation of how each took part in HWCooling Techtour ’25 will come later, in a report after the conferences end.
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
