About Us

The Tech Challenge, a signature program of The Tech, is a key part of our mission to inspire the innovator in everyone. Each year, we present a new design challenge inspired by a real-world scenario. To date, over 37,000 students have honed their creative problem-solving and teamwork skills as part of this annual program. Participants’ efforts are recognized and celebrated.

The challenge takes place over several months as participants form a team, design, build and test their project. Teams document every step of their process including testing, brainstorming, and most importantly what they learn through experimentation and failure. The challenge culminates in a Final Showcase, where the teams present their project to judges in front of family, friends and community members.

John Heinlein, Ph.D., Committee Chair
Sonatus
The Tech Board

George Apostol Jr.
Elastics.cloud, Inc.

Greg Brown
Program Founder
STEM Consultant

Dan Christman
Marvell Technology, Inc.

Chris DiGiorgio
Chairman
The Tech Board

John Decker
EY

Aymeric Gisselbrecht
The Tech Board

Mike Heald
Accenture
The Tech Board

Bill Heil
The Tech Board

Rami Kanama
Microchip Technology

Theodore Lamour
Hitachi Vantara

Tristan Moser-Bleil
PwC

Ekta Sahasi
spikeview Inc.

Lindo St. Angel
Amazon

Craig Stein
Synaptics

Noah Zamansky
eBay

Abby Longcor
Senior Director
alongcor@thetech.org

Leah Koldewyn
Program Manager
1-408-795-6133
lkoldewyn@thetech.org

Matthew Nissen
Coordinator
1-408-795-6210
mnissen@thetech.org

Public relations inquiries:

Jeff Gire
Director of Media and Community
jgire@thetech.org

Supporter opportunities:

Sophia De Quattro
Corporate Relations
1-408-795-6119
sdequattro@thetech.org

Volunteer opportunities:

Lindsey Munzel
Volunteer Manager
1-408-795-6249
lmunzel@thetech.org