2008-2009 Participant Information

We're Part of History!

IT-Olympics hosted the World's Largest Cyber Defense Competition with 36 teams showing up to play.

The 2009 IT-Olympics was the largest Cyber Defense Competition ever held in any division -- high school, community college or university!

Winners of 2009 IT-Olympics Featured in Iowa Communications Network Program

Thanks to support from Iowa Public Television's education program, the first place winners in each of the three 2009 IT-Olympic division competitions (cyber defense, game design and robotics) described their IT-Adventures experience and showcased their IT-Olympics winning projects during an ICN program. The students' presentations were made on the ICN May 14.

You can check out the videos and pictures, as well as the list of winners and participants below.

2008-2009 Pictures and Videos

• IT-Adventures Photo Gallery
• Rock Band Clips
• Hilton Setup Time Lapse (in 23 seconds watch what took us over 12 hours to setup)
• IT-Olympics Video
• Frank Video (thanks to Corning High School for sharing their video about their robotics quest)
• Hilton Marquee

2008-2009 Participants

• 2009 IT-Olympics Winners
• Food consumed
• Program for 2009 IT-Olympics
• IT-Olympics schedule
• Community service project listing
• Lots of door prizes were given away during the IT-Olympics competition. Students were eligible for drawings for two digital cameras, three eee notebooks, three WIIs, one handheld GPS and one HP laptop, in addition to $500 scholarships to Iowa State University. Schools were in the drawing for one eee notebook, one GPS and four Lego Mindstorms NXT robotics kits.
• Two students' names were selected randomly randomly from those students who completed our online survey to win an iPod Touch and an iPod Shuffle.
• a map pinpointing the high schools that participated in the 2008-2009 IT-Adventures program
• a list of the 46 high schools signed up to participate in the year long 2008-2009 IT-Adventures program
• a list of the teams signed up to play in 2009 IT-Olympics venues
• The course description for teacher class for credit with AEA or graduate credit with Drake, as well as the sign-up is available. Sign up through your IT-Adventures login.

Additional information

• Learning Materials for 2008-2009
• Venue Document describes the judging of the three venues plus the community service project component at the IT-Olympics. It also has the details for all primary challenges.
• Cyber Defense scenario and rules are now available. These contain additional, specific information for the cyber defense teams. Also, remote setup information is now available.