Featured Event

HackOHI/O 2025

October 25-26, 2025 | Learn More >

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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.

Cornerstone Events

OHI/O Presented Large Scale Events Celebrating Tech

Software Focused Innovation
October 25 – 25, 2025
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Hardware Focused Marathon
March 7-8, 2026
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Tech Entrepreneurship Showcase
April 10, 2026
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Hackathon for High School
November 23, 2025

Focus Events

Events Led By OHI/O Partners With Our Support And Enthusiasm

World Language Appathon

  • Date November 21, 2025

  • Location Ohio State Main Campus

Construct Ohio

Construct I/O: The Builder’s Summit

  • Date October 23, 2025

  • Location Ohio Union
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BuckeyeCTF 2025

  • Date Friday, Nov 7, 8:00 PM EST – Sunday, Nov 9, 8:00 PM EST

  • Location The Ohio State University, Pomerene Hall
HackOHI/O 2024

Bio-Hack

  • Date November 8 – 9, 2025
  • Location The Ohio State University, Fontana Labs
Hack AI

Hack AI

  • Date February 21-22nd 2026

  • Location The Ohio State University (TBD)

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CodeI/O

  • Date March 28, 2026

  • Location The Ohio State University (TBD)

Code4Cause

  • Date April 5 & 6 2026

  • Location The Ohio State University (TBD)

OCRI Capture The Flag Competition

  • Date Saturday, April 12, 2025

  • Location 99P Labs

  • Time 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

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Game Dev I/O

  • Date TBD

  • Location Ohio State Main Campus

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Community Events

Events On Campus And Beyond That Support Our Tech Community

Startup Team Hunt

When: Wednesday, Oct. 29, 5:00-7:00pm Where: Student Entrepreneurs’ Center (1636 N. High Street) Direct link to register: https://go.osu.edu/startup-team-hunt About the event: Looking to join a startup? Or looking to add a co-founder or collaborator to your team? Join us [...]

Fireside Chat with Jim Terranova

October 1st, 10:30 am - 11:30 am, at the Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship (1636 N. High St. Columbus, OH 43201) Jim is the Chair of the Advisory Board and President of Ohio State's Early Investor [...]

Professional Training: Networking with Battelle!

October 8th, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm, at Page Hall Room 240A This Professional Training is meant to guide students through what it's like to attend and be successful at a networking event. How can students [...]

News Feed

Get to know Jalen Francis

Join us in an interview with a member of the Most Original winner of our Make OHI/O competition, Jalen Francis! Francis shares his insights about making the most of each competition, and learning valuable lessons [...]

Get to know Shalin and Neil

Join us in an interview with the second place winners of our HackAI competition, Shalin Patel and Neil Nair! We learn about the process of brainstorming, coding, and perfecting a concept within 24 hours, and [...]

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 [...]

Translating data science into startups: Arnab Nandi

Arnab Nandi’s research into spatiotemporal data spawned Columbus, Ohio-based Mobikit. Midwest Moxie's executive producer is Audrey Nowakowski. She produced this episode. Subscribe to Midwest Moxie on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and NPR One. And if [...]

Dextra Robotics, a brand new OSU founded start up

Seeking engineers interested in robotics, autonomous systems, and retail environments. Dextra Robotics is a OSU-student founded start-up aiming to provide AI-powered autonomous solutions for SBM retail shelf management. Robots will be involved in re-stocking stocking, [...]

CSE News

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Hari Subramoni, who is 1 of just 8 in the country to receive the 2024 Intel Rising Star Faculty Award. It recognizes early-career academic researchers who are leading advancements in technology research. Cheers [...]