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 College...

The 16th annual Science et Société Forum was held right here at Dawson. We had a total participation of 11 students registered in the conference and several more students (as part of the blue ring society) were participating on the side with organization. Once again, Dawson was the only English college represented. On Friday evening, there was an opening...

A delegation from Dawson College attended the 2nd Sino-Canada Skills competition held in Nanjing, China from June 10th through June 12th.Two students, Joseph Fanaberia and Pietro Mosca, from the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program, won first prize in the Design Innovation Competition. The Design Innovation Competition pitted college teams from Quebec and across China in a...

The “Sustainable Campuses: Sharing our knowledge for Social and Environmental Sustainability” is a partnership initiative between Dawson College and Mexican universities aimed at generating and sharing knowledge on campus sustainability. On May 23, 2015, four Dawson Students traveled to Mexico to carry out a campus sustainability internship at two Mexican universities in the State of...

The Quebec Reach for the Top League had one of its most closely-matched play in recent league history with several games ending in a tie-breaker. It wasn’t until the very last game of regular season play that the standings were established, with Marianopolis College finishing in first position going into the playoff rounds. It was...

The First ever annual Dawson ScienceFest was organised this past year. A series of activities to took place in various venues of the college from Wednesday May 6th to Friday May 8th. Event organisers invited all students from all programs to participate. There were over 100 students who presented various projects at the event.There was...

The 2015 edition of Science, On Tourne! challenged students to build an autonomous machine that hurled a ball against a wall as many times as possible within 60 seconds. The winning team from the Local Dawson competition is sent to the Finals held at Cégep Charlevoix on May 1 & 2. The local Dawson competition...

This year 20 students and 3 faculty members participated in the 4th Science Program trip to visit facilities at the National Research Council (NRC), Transportation Safety Board (TSB) in Ottawa and the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) in Chalk River Ontario (formerly The Atomic Energy of Canada, AECL). The trip was a great success as students...

A record number of Dawson teams participated this year for the PontPop event this year. Momentum has really been building in the last few years, especially thanks to Jean Nagy in the Civil Tech department. The students were very motivated this year and had excellent bridge designs. All teams had support in the planning, design...

The Mini-Science Lecture Series at McGill is an annual event that covers a theme from a variety of viewpoints. This year’s theme is: To Infinity and Beyond: from neutron stars to neuroengineering. Students will have the opportunity to learn from McGill and hospital research scientists. This event is similar to the McGill Mini-Med series, however...