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Hackathons
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.
Programming Team
The team holds special qualifier contests every September and January to select team members for scholarships.
Workshops
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.
Recent News
MangoHacks: Building code for fun can lead to students landing jobs
From improving your rehab to rehabbing your nightlife – these are just some of the problems that about 550 students tried to solve at the recent MangoHacks hosted at FIU’s School of Computing & Information Sciences‘ PG6 Tech Station. Participants in FIU’s largest...
SCIS student – Got my first job at Google!
Krista Shuckerow, B.S in Statistics, second major – Economics; minor in Computer Science has accepted her first job at Google. As a sophomore, I went to my first hackathon, MangoHacks, at FIU in spring of 2016. I walked in, joined a team, built a project and demoed...
Gulliver Prep School visit to Tech Station
Gulliver Prep School is a private co-educational school right here in Miami. The Computer Science department gave 7 outstanding students the opportunity to present their app at FIU SCIS. Graduate and Undergraduates students welcomed them to FIU and gave the students...
Microsoft’s College Code Competition (MSFT3C)
MSFT3C is a free coding competition sponsored and run by Microsoft exclusively for college students. Students come with a team of 3-4 or create their own at the event, the teams will be given an easy, medium and hard question. The team with the most points will win...
SCIS Club’s table at Council for Student Organization
The Council for Student Organization held a spring gathering for clubs all around FIU, several of which where part of the School of Information and Computing Sciences. SCIS Clubs participating: Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) WICS...
Perseverance lands engineering student an internship at MIT
This past summer, Garcia got the opportunity of a lifetime. He always dreamed of going to MIT so when a friend told him about a summer internship program, he applied. Out of 600 students who applied, 36 were accepted. Garcia was among them. He spent 10 weeks at MIT,...