OHI/O
The OHl/O Program fosters a tech culture at Ohio State and its surrounding communities, ultimately providing students the opportunity to learn and build with real technologies outside of the classroom. Through the platform, OHl/O better connects students to real world problems and opportunities by engaging with the community and industry partners.
Focus Events
Events Led By OHI/O Partners With Our Support And Enthusiasm
Construct I/O: The Builder’s Summit
The developer conference for all people – technical and non-technical alike. >
Meet Past Winners
Community Events
Events On Campus And Beyond That Support Our Tech Community
CARE Lab’s 6th Annual Social Engineering Competition
The CARE Lab’s 6th Annual Social Engineering Competition is officially here — and this year, we’re taking things to the next level. The 2026 theme is: AI-Enhanced Social Engineering Attacks on a Community-Based Pharmacy This [...]
BoilerMake 2026
BoilerMake is one of the largest collegiate hackathons in the Midwest, annually bringing together 500+ students from a wide range of universities, majors, and technical backgrounds. Over the course of 36 high-energy hours, participants team [...]
RocketHacks 2026
We’d love to invite students from Ohio State University to participate in RocketHacks 2026, our annual 24-hour hackathon where students come together to innovate, collaborate, and bring their ideas to life. Over an action-packed weekend, [...]
NSF HDR launches Year Two ML Challenge to build AI that works in the real world
The National Science Foundation’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) ecosystem launched its second Machine Learning (ML) Challenge, a community competition aimed at “scientific modeling out of distribution,”or teaching AI systems to hold up when [...]
News Feed
Student Organization Spotlight: OHI/O
Student Organization Spotlight: OHI/O The Institute for Cybersecurity and Digital Trust (ICDT) is committed to uplifting and empowering student organizations that shape the future of Ohio State’s tech community. We look forward to showcasing the [...]
ASEE 2025
OHI/O Showcases Emerging Research on Entrepreneurial Mindset Learning at ASEE 2025 The OHI/O Program was proud to be featured at the 2025 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference in Montréal, [...]
Construct I/O 2025 celebrates innovation and entrepreneurship at Ohio State
Center for Software Innovation highlights growing AI ecosystem Follow me on X (opens in new window) Add me on LinkedIn (opens in new window) Chris Booker Ohio State News booker.9@osu.edu 614.292.7276 Now is the time [...]
What Ohio State’s entrepreneurs are working on
Entrepreneurs at Ohio State have a prolific portfolio when it comes to making big investments pay off, benefiting people and communities near and far. And today, those current and future innovators got a massive boost [...]
Engineering students earn funding for tech ventures
Once again, College of Engineering students enjoyed a lot of stage time – and success – at the annual President’s Buckeye Accelerator Finale held on April 2. Six student-led ventures were each awarded $50,000 in [...]
Ohio State University launches initiative requiring that students study AI
Columbus, Ohio — College freshmen Ashlee Croll and Brooklyn Baldwin are part of something new this fall at Ohio State University that will infuse artificial intelligence lessons into every major. "As a bio major, you [...]