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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
FIU STEM Teachers Workshop
SCIS hosted the second annual FIU STEM Teachers Workshop in June 2013. The workshop, supported by a grant from Ultimate Software and attended by high school teachers from Broward and Miami-Dade counties, introduced computational thinking concepts, object-oriented...
SCIS hosted the Computer Science for High School
SCIS hosted the Computer Science for High School, a Google sponsored, three-day hands-on workshop for High School educators to promote computer science and computational thinking in high school curriculum. Topics include Embedded Systems and Robotics, Raspberry Pi...
Coderdojo Pembroke Pines
Coderdojo Pembroke Pines, FIU sponsors Coderdojo, an international, coding club for kids. FIU students and staff volunteer their time to mentor students from 8-17 years of age in programming languages and robots like Scratch, Lego Mindstorms, and Sphero. The club...
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...
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!...
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.