Community
Service to the community is an important mission we strive to fulfill. Our school seeks to have both a global scientific impact and an engaged and relevant local impact on technology-related industries in Miami and South Florida. Whether we are providing advanced workshops for teachers, demonstrating the state-of-the-art technology at an event, or providing at-risk students with opportunities to learn about technology, our faculty, staff, and students are committed to sharing our knowledge and talents for the betterment of society
REU for Women in Color at FIU
As part of her NSF CAREER Award - Cracking the diversity code: Understanding computing pathways of those least represented in order to foster their representation, Dr. Monique Ross hosted eleven women studying computing from all over the country for a research...
FIU UPE receives the Outstanding Chapter Award from the UPE National Council!
We're happy to share that UPE at FIU has received the Outstanding Chapter Award from the UPE National Council this year! The chapter was selected from 300+ chapters worldwide for a fourth year in a row. #UPEFIU was recognized for building the tech community at...
2nd Annual South Florida VEX Robotics Regional Championship
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...
Virtual Google Development Workshops with UPE
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,...
Upsilon Pi Epsilon’s Valentines Gift to SCIS Students
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 valuable...
Facebook on Campus Recruiting Day
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...
HackNight with UPE
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...
Architecture & SCIS students at Florida International University built a replica of the Hard Rock Stadium for Miami-Dade Police.
https://youtu.be/eMN4QXA6UKw 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 local law...
Yolanda Belisario internship at Assurant Inc.
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 I was invited to...
Ryan Paredes Internship at Assurant Inc.
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 classroom knowledge...