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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
2016-2017 Student Internships
One of the main goals in the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) is to help its computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) students be prepared to enter the workforce when they graduate. Apart from exposing its student body to student...
SCIS student will intern at CERN
Alastair Paragas, SCIS student completing his Computer Science degree, will intern at CERN, located in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the home of the hadron collider where the Higgs-Boson particle was discovered. Another great development at CERN was the creation of the...
Girls Who Code club inspiring the next generation of women in IT
The Girls Who Code club, a two-hour weekly meeting that occurs every Tuesday on FIU’s MMC TechStation. The program started during the Fall 2016 semester and now offers the second club this spring to middle school students. The objective is to teach the girls coding,...
FIU STARS: Extrava-Java-Ganza Winners
FIU STARS: Extrava-Java-Ganza has come to its end on Sunday evening but not without a few winners. With the grand prize being RC Quadcopter Drone the competition was fierce. Let congratulate the following winners. 1st Place Grand Prize - Juan Grajales Winning...
Skill Court Highlighted at Miami Maker Faire
The Miami Maker Faire was held on April 8th and 9th at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus. At the event attended by thousands, FIU featured several exhibits including ICAVE VR experience, Hardware Lab, Coding Fun, and the very popular Soldering Workshop where over 300...
FIU Girls Who Code Club Parents and Community Night
At the event, the FIU Girls Who Code (GWC) Club members presented on the lives of pioneering women in computer science, explained coding concepts to the audience and played their own game creations in Scratch. The Club is made up of middle school girls who meet once a...