In its fifth year, the NSF-awarded Florida IT Pathways to Success project (Flit-Path) has provided 127 scholarships to FIU students in computer science, information technology and computer engineering. Ninety of these students have graduated and are working in the STEM
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On February 24, the College of Engineering & Computing (CEC) announced its newly named Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences (KFSCIS), in recognition of a $10 million gift from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to
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Last week, the College of Engineering & Computing (CEC) announced its newly named Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences (KFSCIS), in recognition of a $10 million investment by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in the
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Building on South Florida’s momentum around technology and entrepreneurship, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has made a $10 million gift to FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences to develop technical talent at scale to meet the
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Florida International University’s Academy for Computer Science Education and Bots for All, a nonprofit organization, hosted the 2nd Annual South Florida VEX Robotics Regional Championship on February 29th, 2020. High school students presented their engineering skills in the form of
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Professor, Dr. Giri Narasimhan and Instructor, Gregory Reis have run a professional development program for teachers in the K12 educational system in South Florida for over 3 years. The goal of this program is to train teachers on multiple robotics
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The eMerge Americas Foundation and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation have partnered to establish a fellowship program that invests in the professional development of top-performing local university engineering students and introduces them to opportunities at top-tier South Florida-based
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The following pictures show aspects of the implementation of an innovative CS STEAM curriculum for elementary and middle school students, and developed @FIUSCIS.
In continuing with FIU’s MOU program since the past two years, we are proud to announce that the third year of MOU program has risen to greater heights with five outstanding Indian final year undergraduate students from Siddaganga Institute of
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Women in Computer Science (WICS) is excited to announce WICSCON: This is what a Programmer looks like, Florida International University’s first student-run women in technology conference happening April 20th, 2019 from 9AM-3PM in Miami, FL. Our goal is to bring
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A new regional chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association will form soon in Miami. Local CS teachers gathered on February 28th and March 21st to meet each other personally, and to establish long-term goals for the Miami chapter. At
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The first is Code/Art, a local nonprofit focused on using the arts to inspire girls throughout Miami-Dade County to learn to code. Our investment will help build the organization’s capacity and advance a train-the-trainer program to support art teachers across
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