Empowering Startup Communities and Supporting Local Entrepreneurship Initiatives in Miami and South Florida Mohsen Taheri has been awarded the UGS Provost Award for Graduate Student Engagement at the Provost Awards Recognition Reception, which took place during the...
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WICS – LinkedIn Workshop + Professional Headshots
At this workshop, students got the opportunity to make their LinkedIn profile more appealing to potential recruiters. After the workshop, the students got to take a professional headshots which they can use for their LinkedIn profiles. [gallery type="slideshow"...
The AAA and SAS Programs FRC team will be competing in the South Florida Regional FRC Competition
FIU SCIS and the Sculptures Lab, under the supervision of Mario Eraso and Robert Chambers, partnered to provide a site on the FIU campus to high school students who during 6 weeks (January 6 - February 17) built and tested a robot in preparation for the FIRST Robotics...
FIU Coding Clubs Showcase
The FIU Coding Clubs Showcase is a family event in which the club members present to the community games and projects they have coded using Scratch. The more advanced students present educational slides on the fundamentals of coding and discuss achievements by...
VR Club – Make a Virtual Reality Game in Unreal Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5QF8J-vGAs Learn how to create experiences for Virtual Reality in a Beginner Workshop. We’ll walk you through the steps, from beginning to end, on how to: Install Unreal Engine on your laptop Set up the VR Development Kit available on...
Super Smash Bros Gaming Tournament
The tournament brought together over a hundred students from around campus to compete, have fun, and start relaxing for spring break! There where lots of giveaways from Nintendo, Amazon, Discord, Pepsi, and Monster. Prizes for the tournament and contest included...
SCIS Assistant Professor awarded NSF CAREER
Mark A. Finlayson has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop new artificial intelligence techniques to automatically uncover and confirm the fundamental structures underlying narrative. Using this funding, Dr. Finlayson and his...
FIU take HackFSU
Hack FSU is a Hackathon hosted by Florida State University in conjunction with FAMU. Celebrating their 5th year hosting a hackathon, FSU welcomed over 400 students from all around Florida for this 36 hour event. 55 students from FIU traveled 8 hours to spend the...
SCIS PH.D. students awarded University Fellowship
We are happy to report that three of our Ph.D. students, Tauhidul Alam, Samia Tasnim, and Georges Kamhoua Kamto, were awarded the University Graduate School's Dissertation Year Fellowship. Thank you for nominating your students and offering your support!
Local middle/high school students learn about STEM at CEC Engineering Expo
On Friday, February 23, 2018, FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing hosted its 17th annual Engineering Expo. The event attracted over 1,500 students from Miami Dade County Public Schools and Broward County Public Schools, two local school districts. During the...