Student Highlight

FIU at BC Hackathon

FIU at BC Hackathon

Carlos Lahrssen, Andres Valdes, Angelo Saraceno, MJ Ramos, David Castaneda BC hackathon was a great experience. We found it through the hackathon.com website since it is not yet an MLH event. Since our team consisted of MangoHacks and ShellHacks organizers we were...

SCIS student, Kerlin Michel intern at Amazon

SCIS student, Kerlin Michel intern at Amazon

Kerlin Michel interned at Amazon from February to July 2018 as a software engineer, under Amazon Web Services (AWS) and worked on the AppSync Service. The project Kerlin worked on was a backend-as-a-service. It was a way for users to create server applications while...

ShellHacks 2018 Wrap Up

ShellHacks 2018 Wrap Up

Shell Hacks, the FIU's School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) and Microsoft cosponsored fall hackathon took the University by storm on Friday, September 14, when more than 700 university students from around the world descended...

Big Sisters/Little Sisters Mentorship Program

Big Sisters/Little Sisters Mentorship Program

On Saturday, Sept. 8th, Maria 'Cristy' Charters and 26 of the girls that are generously being sponsored by School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) to attend the Grace Hopper Conference in Houston this year. Attended a meeting at FIU's Engineering Center,...

Sheila Alemany at MIT [Intern Story]

Sheila Alemany at MIT [Intern Story]

Sheila Alemany is an undergraduate student at the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), majoring in Computer Science and Math and will be graduating in Spring 2019. In the past, Sheila has been hired for on-campus jobs as Academic Success Initiative...