The Dawson Student Union has taken the College鈥檚 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 鈥淚f Your Students Are Glued To Their Phone Then Put Your Lectures On Their Phone鈥�,…
Free software icon Richard Stallman spoke to a crowd of nearly 200 attendees of the Logiciel libre et votre libert茅 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 鈥淎rt, Science and Tradition for Sustainability Forum鈥�, taking place in the State of Morelos, Mexico from March 14th to the 18th. The Forum is a collaborative effort between 星空传媒视频, the Universidad Polit茅cnica del Estado de Morelos and the Universidad Pedag贸gica Nacional…
Last weekend (March 4-5-6), Dawson hosted the Institut du Nouveau Monde鈥檚 Winter School.聽 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…
The work of several second-year students in the Graphic Design program at Dawson has been selected to be featured in a poster presentation of 30 artists at a vernissage at the McCord Museum from March 16 to April 3. The students whose posters were selected are Marc-Andr茅 Larouche, Sandrine Le Blanc, Amelie Lazure-Ratt茅, and Meghan…
Three Dawson teams from Civil Engineering Technology who competed in the the annual ETS PontPOP contest were asked to build scale model bridges using only popsicle sticks, glue and dental floss. This past Saturday, the three Dawson teams collectively won seven awards. Louis Bourdon, Allison Nadeau, Karina Colagrosso聽and Brandon Gnann won two awards for their…
星空传媒视频 played host to nearly 100 participants attending the first-ever workshop held for international recruitment representatives from U.S. Community Colleges and Quebec CEGEPs on Wednesday, February 24th, 2016.聽 This historic event was organized jointly by the U.S. Consulate General in Montreal and the Direction des Affaires International of the F茅d茅ration des Cegeps and in…
星空传媒视频 will be hosting the Winter School (脡cole d鈥檋iver) in partnership with the Institut du Nouveau Monde on March 4, 5 and 6. The Winter School will bring together students from colleges and secondary schools to discuss and exchange on social and political topics, and to develop their abilities to be active members of…
While the rest of us were freezing our tails off this past weekend the Dawson Women鈥檚 Hockey team participated in a tournament in the United States. In Washington, D.C. from February 11-15 some of the top U19 women鈥檚 hockey teams from across Canada and the U.S. took part in the 9th annual JWHL Challenge Cup….
Last Modified: February 24, 2016
