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FIU Coding Clubs Hackathon

FIU Coding Clubs Hackathon

The hackathon was the third and last spring event organized by middle school girls from the FIU Coding Clubs. Thirty students participated: 18 from the FIU Coding Clubs and 12 from our partner Code/Art, a local nonprofit organization. Four SCIS female students...

CEC Senior Design Project Showcase

CEC Senior Design Project Showcase

This year SCIS Senior Project Showcase will collaborate with College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) to host its 1st Annual Senior Design Project Showcase event on April 20th, 2018 at the FIU Ocean Bank Convocation Center (FIU Arena). The inaugural event will bring...

FIU CASE Spring Break Mini Camp

FIU CASE Spring Break Mini Camp

FIU SCIS collaborated with FIU CASE in the design of  STEM activities for the FIU CASE Spring Break Mini Camp. SCIS students Cristina Alonso and Lissett Munoz implemented coding, robotics and encryption activities with 25 of the 35 Miami Dade County Public Schools...

WICS – LinkedIn Workshop + Professional Headshots

WICS – LinkedIn Workshop + Professional Headshots

  At this workshop, students got the opportunity to make their LinkedIn profile more appealing to potential recruiters. After the workshop, the students got to take a professional headshots which they can use for their LinkedIn profiles. [gallery type="slideshow"...

FIU Coding Clubs Showcase

FIU Coding Clubs Showcase

The FIU Coding Clubs Showcase is a family event in which the club members present to the community games and projects they have coded using Scratch. The more advanced students present educational slides on the fundamentals of coding and discuss achievements by...

VR Club – Make a Virtual Reality Game in Unreal Engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5QF8J-vGAs Learn how to create experiences for Virtual Reality in a Beginner Workshop. We’ll walk you through the steps, from beginning to end, on how to: Install Unreal Engine on your laptop Set up the VR Development Kit available on...

Super Smash Bros Gaming Tournament

Super Smash Bros Gaming Tournament

The tournament brought together over a hundred students from around campus to compete, have fun, and start relaxing for spring break! There where lots of giveaways from Nintendo, Amazon, Discord, Pepsi, and Monster.  Prizes for the tournament and contest included...

SCIS Assistant Professor awarded NSF CAREER

SCIS Assistant Professor awarded NSF CAREER

Mark A. Finlayson has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop new artificial intelligence techniques to automatically uncover and confirm the fundamental structures underlying narrative. Using this funding, Dr. Finlayson and his...