Every year, national representatives from the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Association hold an international convention in which all UPE chapters across the world come together to review the last year in terms of finances, new chapters initiated, and awards given to each...
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New CSTA Miami Chapter
CSTA Miami Chapter Learn more 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....
Announcing ShellHacks 2019, Florida’s Largest Hackathon!
Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) is excited to announce that ShellHacks, Florida's largest hackathon, has officially joined the Major League Hacking (MLH) 2020 Hackathon Season! ShellHacks is the first hackathon taking place in the United...
Dr. Finlayson has been awarded an IBM Faculty Award
Dr. Mark Finlayson, an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences, has been awarded an IBM Faculty Award in the amount of $40,000. This award is to support his research in artificial intelligence and natural language...
MentorFIU Hosts Industry Professional Q&A Panel
The idea of getting an internship or a job after graduation can seem daunting. Upsilon Pi Epsilon’s MentorFIU program is trying to get students on the right track to internships, jobs, and more in the technology industry. This program matches mentees to mentors with a...
Upsilon Pi Epsilon Announces New Program for Undergraduate Research
Upsilon Pi Epsilon FIU is proud to announce its new program, UPE Discover. This program, created by Adrian Perez, is for students to research topics they are passionate about in the computing and information sciences. All of the projects in the program will be led by...
Miami Herald Op-ed: Nurture Greater Miami’s future as a technology powerhouse
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...
Intern at Microsoft as a Software Engineer
Octavio Avila-Cardet, a Computer Science major, from Cuba. Interned for Microsoft as a software engineer. I worked in the core services department where internal tools and software that will be used by other Microsoft employees are developed. My team was responsible...
Great Minds in STEM Scholarship
Great Minds in Stem (GMiS) is offering merit-based scholarships range from $500 – $10,000. Applicants must demonstrate merit through academic achievements, leadership and campus/community activities. Scholarship recipients will receive complimentary registration,...
Join FIU’s Premier Organization for Technology
What is ACM? The Association for Computing Machinery is an international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947, and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membership group,...