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Hackathons
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.
Programming Team
The team holds special qualifier contests every September and January to select team members for scholarships.
Workshops
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.
Recent News
Recap: 2019 ACM Southeast USA Regional Programming Contest
On Saturday, November 9th, FIU was one of the four sites of the Southeast regional (SER) International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC). Twenty-one of the 122 teams that competed yesterday from across the southeast region (Florida, Georgia, S. Carolina,...
SCIS Student Sunanda Guha Attended Workshops at 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2019)
Sunanda Guha, 1st year PhD student has attended ACM BuildSys 2019 on 10th November, 2019 at Columbia University along with her PhD advisor Dr. M. Hadi Amini at Columbia University, New York. She is a member of Sustainability, Optimization, and Learning...
Senior design experience leads grad to be named ‘rockstar’ engineer
Rachelle Tobkes graduated from FIU in 2016 and through Senior Design, she was hired to work for Citrix, a multinational software company providing workspace and cloud computing technologies. She was voted Citrix’s 2019 Rockstar Engineer for her innovation,...
Research Day Overview
The First Annual SCIS Research Day takes place on October 25, 2019. The event features a guest keynote, six research presentations from our faculty members, and 45 research posters from our Ph.D. students. In addition, the students each give a 3-minutes lightning talk...
Rahul Mittal, FIU Homecoming Prince
When I started at Florida International University in Fall 2017, moving from India, I didn’t even know what Homecoming was. I learned that Homecoming celebrated the spirit of FIU by inviting alumni and organizing various festivities throughout the week for current...
ShellHacks 2019 Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZO8Kh9Cl3g Thirty-six hours of no sleep, plenty of coffee and a will to do good, that’s the idea behind ShellHacks, the largest hackathon in Florida held at FIU’s Graham Center. The hackathon, a sprint-like event where...