Students

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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.

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

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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