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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
From classroom to career: FIU student lands internship at World Kinect via new Tech Talent Academy
Harrison Perez, a junior at Florida International University (FIU) majoring in computer science and economics, has secured an internship as a Software Engineer at World Kinect Corporation. Growing up in Miami, Perez has witnessed FIU's growth, including its ranking as...
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...
KFSCIS Students Pitch Transformational Cooking App at eMerge Americas, Get ready to cook!
“[Cheffy] is your personalized pantry guru, crafted for busy souls who crave simplicity in the Kitchen,” said the founder and CEO of Cheffy, Pablo Rivera. Pablo and his team of KFSCIS students Daniel Lawrence, Evelyn Cao, and Giuliana Russi, pitched their new cooking...
Unlocking Tomorrow’s Frontiers: KFSCIS Faculty Retreat Develops Visionary Strategies
In a captivating Spring Faculty Retreat held at the Doubletree Hilton Doral, faculty members explored tomorrow’s frontiers in computer science as they focused on visionary strategies and innovations for the future. Faculty members began this year’s strategic planning...
KFSCIS Student Veterans Receive Inaugural Scholarships
Veterans are thriving in the KFSCIS educational environment, and none more prominently than Justin Casale, Luis Sanchez, and Cynthia Tounn, three KFSCIS students who were selected as inaugural recipients of FIU’s inaugural Robert Henry Stovall Military Scholarship....
KFSCIS Women Join the Way Forward at the Grace Hopper Celebration
A cohort of 50 promising young KFSCIS women joined more than 30,000 attendees at this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando. This year's theme, The Way Forward, provided a rallying cry for the tech industry to come together and create a more inclusive...