I’m a student and I’ve been helping organize something kinda wild at my high school – we run actual overclocking competitions.
We’ve already done two editions so far. It started when one of our teachers, who is really into overclocking in the Polish scene, encouraged us to try doing something bigger with it. It’s mostly students pushing CPUs/GPUs as far as possible, tweaking BIOS, running benchmarks, occasionally breaking things (one student broke two PSUs at first edition) but that’s part of the fun. We set everything up in the sports hall and even managed to get some pretty serious setups going. There was even a small stream running during it.
Our school and some awesome sponsors actually provided real rewards. Last year's prize pool was incredible for a student event: A Ryzen 5 7600X processor, an RTX 4060 graphics card, an AIO Silvermonkey 360 cooler and a 650W Supremo FM5 Gold PSU.
Here are some photos from the previous ones. Next edition is happening in a few days, so we’re getting everything ready again. It still feels weird (in a good way) that our school lets us do this! It's great to see that our school actually supports "niche" tech hobbies. As our teacher says, it’s an amazing way to introduce younger people to hardware and finetuning.