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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.
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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

National Robotics Week

National Robotics Week

We provide an open house to area K-12 students in the FIU Discovery Lab. Undergraduate students demoed their latest projects in a variety of areas such as embedded controllers, mobile apps, robotics, sensor networks, 3D printing and design tools. We featured our...

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FIU Annual High School Programming Competition

FIU Annual High School Programming Competition

FIU Annual High School Programming Competition hosted teams from schools throughout Florida. The competition is modeled after the ACM International Programming competitions- the team solving the most problems in the least amount of time with the fewest attempts wins!...

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Engineering Expo Day

Engineering Expo Day

Over 1,500 Miami-Dade and Broward elementary and middle school students visit our Engineering Center Campus where many participated in robotics demonstrations and activities provided by faculty and students of the FIU Discovery Lab.

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FIU’s Hybrid Man-Machine Cops

FIU’s Hybrid Man-Machine Cops

FIU's Discovery Lab and U.S. navy reserves join by bringing to life robots that will patrol the cities. Being remote controlled by veterans, and changing the way they recover. Read more...

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