IIT Professor Kimont – a life changing and inspiring teacher

February 2013. Nine months ago I entered the graduate program as a student in the Information Technology and Management program at Illinois Institute of Technology. As a new graduate student whose previous training was in Syria, I had a certain point of view about software development and Java. I hadn’t really been thinking about taking courses related to…

The Hackathon !

A large number of Syrian students at IIT are into the technology field. So when we first heard about the Monkey Bars Hackathon, we thought it would be a great idea to form a team to represent the Syrians. The Hackathon is a competition where developers work in groups for 25 hours tocome up with…