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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
CodeFest Miami 2017 at FIU
CodeFest Miami (go.fiu.edu/codefest) is a computer science education outreach program created in 2014 by FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) with generous assistance from industry partners and the organizing team Cristy Charters, Mario Eraso, and...
2017 SCIS Annual Awards Banquet
This year FIU's School of Computing and Information Sciences was filled with a lot of achievements from students, faculty, and staff. The Awards Committee have carefully selected a few faculty, students and staff for this year awards. Please visit the 2017 Awards...
FIU Students Working to Build Smart Cities with SOP Technologies
FIU Seniors worked on building a web app to help cities track and analyze data captured by wireless sensors. SOP Technologies' Smart Stormwater system is an Internet of Things (IoT) solution that uses sensors and web interfaces to prevent water pollution,...
NBC 6 Discusses Dangers of Facebook quizzes with FIU SCIS Ph.D. students
Although fun and interesting, quizzes on Facebook have the potential of releasing your personal information to companies. FIU SCIS PhD students Sajedul Talukder, Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, and Georges Kamhouaalong along with CaSPR Labs showed NBC 6 News exactly what...
SCIS Ph.D. student Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, custom two-factor authentication (2FA) system
SCIS Ph.D. student Mozhgan Azimpourkivi co-advised by Dr. Umut Tokara, Bloomberg LP and SCIS Associate Professor, Dr.Bogdan Carbunar have created a custom two-factor authentication (2FA) system called Pixie that relies on users taking a photo of a personal object. The...
SCIS at the 2017 Grace Hopper Conference
FIU SCIS invited 25 young ladies in IT and CS to attend the 2017 Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando, Florida. The girls attended all 3 days of the conference, starting each day with the keynote speeches by some of the most inspiring and leading women in technology,...