Tekkoshocon

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Tekkoshocon
Status	Active
Venue	Radisson Hotel Pittsburgh Green Tree
Location	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Country	United States
First held	2003
Attendance	2,457 in 2007
Official website

Tekkoshocon is an anime convention in the Pittsburgh Metro Area. Tekkoshocon is run by the non-profit organization Tekkoshocon, Inc. The convention's name is a blend of the Japanese word tekkosho, meaning steel mill, and convention.

1 Programming
2 History
- 2.1 Event history
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Programming

The convention typically offers video rooms, anime music video contest, masquerade / cosplay contest, hall cosplay, panels on a various of related topics, workshops, Dealers' Room, Art Show, Artists' Alley, dance, model contest, concerts, anime game shows, and video gaming. In 2005, a scale modeling contest was first introduced. The following year saw Tekkoshocon's first charitable events.

[edit] History

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[edit] Event history

Dates	Location	Atten.	Guests
March 29–30, 2003	Wyndham Pittsburgh Airport Coraopolis, Pennsylvania	600	Vic Mignogna, Chris Patton, and Debora Rabbai.^[1]
March 12–14, 2004	Pittsburgh Marriott North Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania		Greg Ayres, Steve Bennett, Bob Bergen, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Vic Mignogna, and Otaku Duet.^[2]
April 8–10, 2005	Pittsburgh ExpoMart Radisson Hotel Pittsburgh Monroeville, Pennsylvania		Greg Ayres, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Richard "Pocky" Kim, Bruce Lewis, Mike McFarland, Piano Squall, and Jeff Thompson.^[3]
March 31 – April 2, 2006	Pittsburgh ExpoMart Radisson Hotel Pittsburgh Monroeville, Pennsylvania	1,771	Greg Ayres, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Caitlin Glass, Tiffany Grant, Matt Greenfield, Hilary Hatch, Kyle Hebert, Piano Squall, Michael Poe, and Greg Wicker.^[4]
April 13–15, 2007	Pittsburgh ExpoMart Radisson Hotel Pittsburgh Monroeville, Pennsylvania	2,457	Greg Ayres, Hilary Hatch, Kyle Hebert, Mari Iijima, Vic Mignogna, Michael Poe, Carrie Savage, Brett Weaver, and Greg Wicker.^[5]
April 11–13, 2008	Radisson Hotel Pittsburgh Green Tree Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania		Robert Axelrod, Greg Ayres, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Aaron Dismuke, Sandy Fox, Tiffany Grant, Matt Greenfield, The Hsu-nami, Mari Iijima, Lex Lang, Mike McFarland, and Carrie Savage.^[6]