The third annual SPACEweek will occur during the first week of May, from Monday, May 6 – Friday, May 10. The SPACEweek showcase will take place in 3C.1 (with some activities in 5B.16) and will feature work by students from across the arts and sciences who participated in SPACE in 2023-24. It will include displays,…
Eight Dawson students working in two teams have won an independent video game design competition in an extracurricular competition organized by Physics faculty member Nadim Boukhira.
The students are all in the SPACE student enrichment initiative.
Visit the link for the homepage news story, which includes more photos and feedback from students.
In 2023-2024, SPACE held its sixth annual writing competition. Students from all disciplines across Dawson College were invited to submit writing that offered a personal interpretation of this year’s theme, Uncertainty. The submissions were divided into three categories—prose (fiction and creative non-fiction), poetry and essay—and were judged in a blind fashion by Lois Valliant (retired Faculty, Fine Arts) and Hannah Rahimi (Faculty, English).
Entries were evaluated according to originality and depth of thought, style, arts-sciences connections and relation to the theme. The winners received gift certificates from Argo Bookstore, and the winners and honourable mentions have been published and highlighted on the SPACE website. You can read and comment on their thought-provoking work here.
Stay tuned as well for the announcement of a public reading by the winners and honourable mentions during the first week of May for SPACE Week.
Illustration by Léa Crépeau
Certificates offer students from all programs the opportunity to interact in a learning community of fellow students and teachers who share a passion for thinking about and finding solutions for specific historical and contemporary issues. Students currently can take along with their DEC a certificate in Women’s/Gender Studies, Hellenic Studies, Peace Studies, Decolonization and Indigenization Studies, SPACE: Arts and Sciences, and Environment and Sustainability.
Interested in learning more about any of these certificates? Wondering about how to get more involved or the possibilities for co-teaching a certificate course with a colleague? If so, we invite you to drop by the Upper Atrium on Wednesday, November 8 between 10 AM and 3 PM.
For more information, please contact Karina D’Ermo in the Office of Academic Development.
Photo: Peace Studies students celebrate with faculty at their certificate ceremony.
The second annual SPACEweek will take place during the first week of May. The SPACEweek showcase in 3C.1 will feature work by students from across the arts and sciences who participated in SPACE in 2022-23. It will include displays, demonstrations, interactive activities, student talks and presentations, readings, and competitions. Robotics demonstrations and presentations will be held throughout the week.
Visitors can participate in the showcase by creating alternate versions of famous artworks by following a series of “What if” prompts; casting their vote for the people’s choice award for the ScienceFest 2023 photo contest; joining a series of walking tours around Dawson using the AR Cité app; and writing and answering questions in response to viewing artworks by students.
On Thursday, May 4 we invite all to a reading by the winners of the fifth annual SPACE writing contest, an interactive art activity, and live performances of songs created from the ChatGPT Song Writing Contest.
Highlights from Friday will include a session of virtual talks by renowned planetary scientists— A grand tour of the solar system: from Mercury and the Moon to the outer reaches!—followed by mobile robot navigation challenge races late afternoon.
The majority of the activities will take place in 3C.1. Stay tuned for the full schedule!
In 2022-2023, SPACE held its fifth annual writing competition. Students from all disciplines across Dawson College were invited to submit writing that offered a personal interpretation of this year’s theme, What If? The submissions were divided into three categories––prose (fiction and creative non-fiction), poetry and essay––and were judged in a blind fashion by Lois Valliant (retired Faculty, Fine Arts) and Hannah Rahimi (Faculty, English).
Entries were evaluated according to originality and depth of thought, style, arts-sciences connections and relation to the theme. The winners received gift certificates from Argo Bookstore, and the winners and honourable mentions have been published and highlighted in the SPACE web magazine.
Stay tuned as well for the announcement of a public reading by the winners and honourable mentions during the first week of May for SPACE Week.
You can read and comment on their thought-provoking work in the link below.
When it was time to submit an abstract to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas, the Dawson student team was not sure which category described them best.
“I think we are the first CEGEP students to present research at the LPI! Undergraduate was the category closest to us,” said Darcy Loane-Billings (Pure & Applied Science), lead author of the abstract and second-year student at Dawson.
For the homepage news story, visit the link below.
The first workshop on Ices in the Solar System: A Volatile-Excursion from Mercury and the Moon to the Kuiper Belt and Beyond, took place at Dawson College from Jan. 9 to 11. The workshop, the only NASA sanctioned event held outside of the United States, was co-convened by Dawson’s Richard Soare (faculty, Geography) and Jim Garvin, formerly NASA’s Chief Mars Scientist and currently the Principal Investigator of the DAVINCI Mission to Venus.
Dawson SPACE students also got to participate!
Click Read More for the homepage news story by Ursula Sommerer
Arduino Workshops At the beginning of November, in a series of workshops led by SPACE coordinator Joel Trudeau, students were introduced to the basics of the Arduino platform for STEAM projects. The active learning activities took place over two consecutive Friday afternoons with close to 90 students in total participating. In the first workshop, Visual…
The Dawson Robotics team brought home the Sportsmanship prize from the multidisciplinary CRC Robotics' Arcanum 2022 competition held from April 28 to 30 at the École Curé-Antoine-Labelle. The team also won first place in the video production category and second in the programming and kiosks competition.
Read all about how our students welcomed the competition's many challenges with open arms.
Last Modified: April 24, 2024
