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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

Graduate School Fair Feb 4th

Graduate School Fair Feb 4th

Come join us at the graduate school fair on February 4th from 12 pm to 3 pm! Discover more about our top-ranked graduate programs from faculty, staff, and current graduate students. Sign up URL: go.fiu.edu/gradfair Replay URL: fiugrad.heydays.io/videos

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SCIS 2020 Awards Recap

SCIS 2020 Awards Recap

The School of Computing and Information Sciences held their SCIS Annual Awards Presentation, honoring the best of the best in the School, the College and Florida International University. Since we could not be together physically, we want you to take advantage of any...

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CPSLab receives the Best Paper Award at ACM BuildSys 2020

CPSLab receives the Best Paper Award at ACM BuildSys 2020

Dr. Dong Chen and his students at the CPSLab together with Dr. Raju Rangaswami have received the Best Paper Award from ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2020). BuildSys is a highly selective, single-track forum...

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