Dawson played host to students and faculty from Cegep Limoilou in Quebec City and Nanjing Polytechnic Institute in Nanjing, China for the first edition of the Sino-Canada Skills Competition to be held in Montreal from June 7 – 10, 2016. The friendly competition was comprised of two CNC modules: a CNC Milling competition and a…
The annual Dawson College Bilingual Business Administration CASE Competition took place on April 10 and Dawson took some of the top honours. This unique competition offered teams from participating CEGEPs across Quebec the opportunity to demonstrate their presentation skills and business acumen by analyzing, assessing and solving complex business cases. The event featured three streams:…
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…
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…
Dawson College 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. This historic event was organized jointly by the U.S. Consulate General in Montreal and the Direction des Affaires International of the Fédération des Cegeps and in…
Dawson College will be hosting the Winter School (École d’hiver) 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…
Open House will take place on Sunday, January 31, 2016 from 1-5 p.m. On this day, the College is open to prospective students and their families, and anyone thinking of applying to CEGEP or transferring programs. This is a chance to meet and talk with current students, teachers, advisors, admissions and other non-teaching staff about…
Dawson is host to this year’s international Science et Société conference taking place from November 6-8. Organized by the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS), this event will draw close to 300 students from CEGEPS around the province and speakers from Quebec and France. The theme for the forum is Connaissances pour un monde en…
Last Modified: June 28, 2016
