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The Miami Maker Faire shows Miami’s growing Maker Movement

The Miami Maker Faire shows Miami’s growing Maker Movement

The Miami Maker Faire was held on Saturday, Nov. 16th, 2013 at the Lab Miami, located in the Wynwood Arts District of Downtown Miami. The Faire featured over 80 exhibits, presenters, and workshops and was attend by well over 1,000 people of all ages and interests....

FIU Tapestry Workshop

FIU Tapestry Workshop

The goals of the NSF funded high school instructor workshop to attract more and diverse students into your high school Computer Science classes by sharing strategies, research-based practices, and field-tested...

FIU STEM Teachers Workshop

SCIS hosted the second annual FIU STEM Teachers Workshop in June 2013. The workshop, supported by a grant from Ultimate Software and attended by high school teachers from Broward and Miami-Dade counties, introduced computational thinking concepts, object-oriented...

SCIS hosted the Computer Science for High School

SCIS hosted the Computer Science for High School, a Google sponsored, three-day hands-on workshop for High School educators to promote computer science and computational thinking in high school curriculum. Topics include Embedded Systems and Robotics, Raspberry Pi...

National Robotics Week

National Robotics Week

We provide an open house to area K-12 students in the FIU Discovery Lab. Undergraduate students demoed their latest projects in a variety of areas such as embedded controllers, mobile apps, robotics, sensor networks, 3D printing and design tools. We featured our...

FIU Annual High School Programming Competition

FIU Annual High School Programming Competition

FIU Annual High School Programming Competition hosted teams from schools throughout Florida. The competition is modeled after the ACM International Programming competitions- the team solving the most problems in the least amount of time with the fewest attempts wins!...

Engineering Expo Day

Engineering Expo Day

Over 1,500 Miami-Dade and Broward elementary and middle school students visit our Engineering Center Campus where many participated in robotics demonstrations and activities provided by faculty and students of the FIU Discovery Lab.