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Students Information Systems 2017 2015
The AIS Club held BYU's first ever service hackathon, a competition for tech-savvy students who are programmed to serve.
Fingers flashed across computer keyboards and eyes skimmed screens as more than four hundred students participated in tech competitions as part of the annual AITP conference in St. Louis.
Information systems senior Nick Kerr and finance senior Priscilla Hobbs are featured in Poets & Quants; list of the top undergraduate students in the nation.
Stephane Akoki grew up in the Ivory Coast in West Africa, experiencing the travesty of insufficient opportunity. Now, he's using the opportunities given him at BYU to empower Ivorian entrepreneurs.
The need for STEM professionals is on the rise, and women are happily stepping up to help meet the exploding demand. According to Forbes, eleven of the top twenty highest-paying jobs for women in 2015 are in STEM fields—among those, information systems managers were ranked eighteenth. And at BYU, more female students are discovering the lure of careers in the field.
When Maria Yacaman came to BYU to play golf, she intended to major in finance, but a required information systems course changed everything.
Sickness, car wrecks, and births—INTEX, the weeklong rite of passage for information systems students, stops for nothing.