CoolTech Challenge

CoolTech Challenge and Showcase

RITE’s CoolTech Challenge provides high school students with an opportunity to solve a community, school or business problem.

Teams of rising 9th through 12th graders in peer-to-peer, school-based competition.
Competition categories:
- Build a functional interactive app.
- Build a functional mobile-ready website.
- Create a concept for either an interactive app or mobile-ready website.
Over $10,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the teams that are selected in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each of the four competition categories.
All participants have the opportunity to display and present their project through RITE’s CoolTech Challenge Showcase.

Students cultivate their tech creativity and design skills.
Students hone important “soft skills” like teamwork, communication, and collaboration.
Students learn how to present their tech-based entrepreneurial ideas to a professional audience.
Students gain valuable feedback on how to improve their ideas.

Since the first CoolTech Challenge in 2008, more than 500 area high school students have participated in the annual competition.

For more information on how to invest, contact Courtney DeOreo at cdeoreo@ohiorite.com or (216) 592-2291.

First Place Winners of the 12th Annual CoolTech Challenge


Daniel Obloj	Anthony Shuman	Jay Skrab

Students: Anthony Shuman, Jay Skrab and Daniel Obloj
School: Padua Franciscan High School
Teacher: Rich Kirkpatrick

Hunter Galloway

Student: Hunter Galloway
School: Chagrin Falls High School
Teacher: Carolyn Petite


Chloe Chen	Rajit Khatri	Alex Dzurec

Students: Chloe Chen, Rajit Khatri and Alex Dzurec
School: Westlake High School
Teacher: Elena Prohaska