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:…
A large contingent of Dawson students with an interest in entrepreneurship was present at a blockbuster business event organized by the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Monday, on April 11 at the Centre Pierre-Péladeau. The Chambre de commerce du Montréal Métropolitain (CCMM) is well-known for featuring celebrity speakers, having hosted Hillary Clinton, Chris…
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…
Last Modified: April 13, 2016
