Students

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Advising

Need help with class information or understanding the programming tracks? We have advisors who are here to help. Please visit our advising page for more information.
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Tech Support

Get all the help you need with email access, wifi and assessing your files off campus. Most of your technical questions can be answered on our support page.
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Organizations

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences is full of activities and our student organizations contribute to most of the activities for our students. Community outreach, hackathons, and many more.

Extracurricular Activities

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Hackathons

Sleeping bags, pillows, pizza, soda and plenty of coffee. This might sound like an awesome sleepover or summer camp but it is just endless hours of coding and prototyping the next great thing.

Hackathons provide a venue for self-expression and creativity through technology. People form teams around a problem or idea, and collaboratively code a unique solution that generally take shape in the form of websites, mobile apps, and robots.

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Programming Team

An elite group of students from Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences that compete in regional and online programming contests. The programming team offers intensive training which allows team members to develop top-notch problem-solving skills. The intensive training provides team members the ability to develop top-notch problem-solving skills.

The team holds special qualifier contests every September and January to select team members for scholarships.

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Workshops

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences provides plenty of workshops for students and to the community at large. the workshops vary but majority of them focus educating and training students in computer and gaming programming, mobile and web design and development, and robotics.

The workshops are lead by industry professionals with years of experience in their field. Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences also host many of the local and national workshops or camps.

Tech Station

Is a $3 million, 8,000 sq. ft hub for technology innovation, training and community engagement built to attract the next generation of top computing students.

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Recent News

New BS in Data Science and AI to launch Fall 2024

New BS in Data Science and AI to launch Fall 2024

The Florida Board of Governors recently informed FIU Provost Elizabeth Bejar that, “the Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, CIP 30.7001, proposed by Florida International University, will be added to the State University System Academic...

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New KFSCIS Faculty Join for Fall 2024

New KFSCIS Faculty Join for Fall 2024

The Director of KFSCIS, Dr. Jason Liu recently announced the hiring of four new faculty members for Fall 2024 and one new faculty member who will be joining the ranks in Fall 2025. Dr. Truong Nghiem will be joining KFSCIS as a tenured Associate Professor in August...

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