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I am a Freshman, so what?

I am a Freshman, so what?

In Fall 2017, I moved to the United States from India as a Freshman at Florida International University, Miami majoring in Computer Science. I had received a full-tuition merit scholarship with an invitation to the Honors College. I also received a Surface Laptop with...

FIU High School Programming Competition

FIU High School Programming Competition

Saturday, April 14th, 120 amazing high school computer science students and their teachers participated in our 13th Annual FIU High School Programming Competition. They were amazing in every way. I know many of you graduated from South Florida high schools, and you...

IEEE MIPR 2018

IEEE MIPR 2018

The 1st IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR) has held a whole day retreat on the first day of the conference on April 10th and invited the pioneers and leaders in the multimedia research community to discuss the...

FIU Coding Clubs Hackathon

FIU Coding Clubs Hackathon

The hackathon was the third and last spring event organized by middle school girls from the FIU Coding Clubs. Thirty students participated: 18 from the FIU Coding Clubs and 12 from our partner Code/Art, a local nonprofit organization. Four SCIS female students...

CEC Senior Design Project Showcase

CEC Senior Design Project Showcase

This year SCIS Senior Project Showcase will collaborate with College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) to host its 1st Annual Senior Design Project Showcase event on April 20th, 2018 at the FIU Ocean Bank Convocation Center (FIU Arena). The inaugural event will bring...

FIU CASE Spring Break Mini Camp

FIU CASE Spring Break Mini Camp

FIU SCIS collaborated with FIU CASE in the design of  STEM activities for the FIU CASE Spring Break Mini Camp. SCIS students Cristina Alonso and Lissett Munoz implemented coding, robotics and encryption activities with 25 of the 35 Miami Dade County Public Schools...