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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Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, technologists around the world are scrambling to do their part in mitigating the pandemic. For many students, the transition to remote schooling resulted in a loss of on-campus learning resources, including in-person mentoring, workshops, and special
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Valentine’s Day, a day where people express their love to their dearest companions, has been, for the most part, unchanging where traditions are usually predicated on showing affection to others. But what about showing love and appreciation for programming, a
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Just before spring break started, FIU SCIS students networked with one of the biggest companies in tech, Facebook. With the end of the recruiting season for summer internships around the corner, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Advance collaborated with the Facebook
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Last Wednesday, the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Hackers committee hosted this year’s first HackNight, giving students a chance to participate in team-building activities and brainstorming application ideas for last week’s upcoming hackathons. Last week’s hackathons included UPE’s very own Global
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Samuel Morris was featured on Kansas City local KMBC 9 News on January 29th, 2020. He has worked with several students from FIU’s School of Architecture on building a 3D replica of Hard Rock Stadium. The project was requested by
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Name: Yolanda Belisario Hometown: San Tome, Anzoategui, Venezuela. Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned at Assurant Inc. Since my first day at Assurant, I was exposed to different technologies and methodologies. The very first day
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Name: Ryan Paredes Hometown: New York Where did you intern? What did you do there? Assurant, Inc. I joined as the inaugural member of the Talent Development Pipeline working in the DevSecOps organization. There, I got to continue applying my
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With 2020 marking a new decade, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the largest tech organization at FIU, hosted its 2020 Spring Kickoff Meeting on January 10th. At the meeting, UPE introduced engaging and exciting opportunities aimed at boosting skills and careers
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Florida International University (FIU) President, Mark B. Rosenberg, in his weekly newsletter, The Sunday Briefing, highlighted the college achievements of the School of Computing and Information Sciences student Carolina Uribe-Gosselin. The newsletter began with Carolina is an example of an
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3 years ago I co-founded SparkDev, a development program focused on satisfying your hunger to learn more about topics like artificial intelligence, cyber security, virtual reality, website development and much more. Never would I have imagined that our signature event,
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Shanna is a current undergraduate student studying computer science and is also working toward obtaining a certificate in Japanese through FIU’s Asian Studies Program. This past summer, she accepted the opportunity to intern at JPMorgan Chase as part of JPMC’s Software Engineering Program for interns.
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