Inside the school
Weekly programmes that run across Dubai College and our international chapter network.
Every week
Weekly sessions & CDAs
The Society runs weekly sessions covering guest talks, project updates, collaborative coding and brainstorming, alongside four active sub-clubs that meet across the week.
Build sprints
Hackathon challenges
Multiple hackathons per term, from 'Tech for Social Good' project builds to timed HackerRank challenges with cash prizes. Over 8 teams built everything from elderly-support forums to AI health advice this year.
Winners: Annika B · Myra S, Anya D & Guoguo L · Eklavya T
Hardware & competition
Robotics & FIRST Global
Hands-on robotics, from Micro:bit builds to competition robots. Dubai College students took Gold at the FIRST Global Challenge in Panama, competing against 193 countries for the UAE's first Gold medal in over 36 years.
Industry & student voices
Speaker sessions
Guest sessions with industry professionals and student presenters, from Tucker Highfield on the Bittensor protocol and AI startups, to InnovAIte and student-led robotics and AI showcases.
Tucker Highfield · InnovAIte · Myra Sobti
KS3 · KS4 · KS5
Code of the Week (COTW)
A weekly programming challenge at three levels. The Competitive Programming Club meets weekly, with teams competing in the Perse Coding Challenge and ACSL, placing top-10 globally this year.
Applied CS Club outputs
DC-CarShare & Speak Up
Real platforms built by members that solve problems across the school and beyond: a car-sharing coordination tool and an anonymous feedback platform, both shipped by students.
Partnership
MUGA League
The Society partners with the MUGA League, building and running the web tooling behind it. Explore the live league platform built by Society members.
Rooted in the UAE. Operating globally.
Dubai CS Society grew out of Dubai College and now operates an international chapter network. Bahrain is live, with Singapore, New Jersey and Hong Kong opening next.