Once again this year, Dawson College was represented at the Montreal Bar debate which took place Wednesday March 30. The Debate is an annual competition between CEGEPs where teams of 2 students debate an assigned topic. The topic at last week’s debate was prison for life with no possibility of parole. Teams prepare for perspectives…
The Canadian Robotics Competition (CRC) is an annual event open to high schools and CEGEPs in the greater Montreal region. It is a multi-disciplinary event with the objective of building a robot, themed kiosk, website and short video. This year, the competition ran for two days from Feb 25th to 27th and was hosted at…
The new project rooms in the 3F wing were officially inaugurated on February 9 at a ribbon-cutting ceremony by the Director General Richard Filion in the company of a cross-disciplinary group of Dawson faculty and staff. Concept designers Kurt Holfeld and Anne Marie Legault (co-chairs of Interior Design) were on hand to explain the design…
Last weekend, 9 members of the Dawson College Model United Nations society (DCMUN) represented Dawson College at the CANIMUN Model UN, organized by the United Nations Association in Canada, held in Ottawa. CANIMUN is one of Canada’s premier Model United Nations competitions, and we can be proud to count a number of Dawson alumni among…
During the Study Break, 15 members of the Dawson College Model United Nations, and two members of the faculty, attended Harvard’s World Model United Nations in Rome. WorldMUN is considered the Olympics of the Model UN circuit, bringing together over 2400 delegates from 110 countries for this event. A central purpose of Model UN is…
The Dawson Student Union has taken the College’s commitment to peace one step further by organizing a student-run conference that will take place on March 31. Dawson Peace will incorporate various activities and speakers to talk about peace and its role in the 21st century. The Dawson Peace conference aims to create a more acute…
The Office of Academic Development put together another revolutionary series of workshops to help teachers maximize on the benefits of technology in the classroom. Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology in OAD, hosted the series that included such topics as “If Your Students Are Glued To Their Phone Then Put Your Lectures On Their Phone”,…
Free software icon Richard Stallman spoke to a crowd of nearly 200 attendees of the Logiciel libre et votre liberté conference at Dawson on March 17. Often described as the inventor of what many refer to as open-source or free software, Stallman is the creator of the GNU/Linux operating system. Sponsored by the ADTE and…
A team of Dawson teachers, students and staff will be participating in the “Art, Science and Tradition for Sustainability Forum”, taking place in the State of Morelos, Mexico from March 14th to the 18th. The Forum is a collaborative effort between Dawson College, the Universidad Politécnica del Estado de Morelos and the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional…
Last weekend (March 4-5-6), Dawson hosted the Institut du Nouveau Monde’s Winter School. More than 130 CEGEP and secondary school students and over 60 volunteers and participants came together to engage, discuss and propose solutions to questions facing young people in Quebec today: questions such as violent radicalization, indigenous issues in Quebec, mental health and…
Last Modified: March 9, 2016
