The Scotiabank National Marketing Case Challenge (formerly the BDC Case Competition) is in its 14th year in the CEGEP network. This is a formative event for our students, who train for 5 months by analyzing university-level marketing cases, developing oral presentation skills, and learning to think on their feet (literally) in order to respond to...

Two classes of Dawson Electronics Engineering students, along with their counterparts in a school in Tres Marias, Morelos, Mexico, will help design and build components for a community’s first solar-powered internet radio station housed in a traditional adobe brick house. This off-electrical grid house will also collect rooftop water to create a pond micro-habitat for...

Students in the Interior Design Program are going to the Toronto Interior Design Show. Students will visit the trade show, including key note lectures and workshops. They will tour Toronto sites organized with Interior Designers of Canada. Students will also visit museums and manufacturer’s showrooms with Dawson instructors

Students will travel to Costa Rica to complete the Ecology & Culture course. During the 12 day trip the students will be staying with local families and experiencing what it is like to live in rural Costa Rica; participating in family meals and celebrations, cooking, fishing, farming, ecotourism and everyday life. At times when students...

North South Studies is a social science profile that teaches about the intricate relationship between countries of the Global North and those of the Global South. It does so from a multidisciplinary perspective, giving students the opportunity to explore the social, political and economic structures that generate and perpetuate poverty and inequality in the world....

The design and production of an exhibition flyer is a learning activity within the Studio Arts Integrating Activity course. The Comprehensive Assessment takes place in this course for the students registered in the Studio Arts Profile. The flyer will contain the works created in the Studio Arts Integrating Activity course, some comments from the students,...

Media Night is a public event at the Dawson Theatre that showcases films and other media-related projects made by students in the Cinema + Communications Profile and ALC program in a public event held at the end of term. Parents, teachers, colleagues and friends attend the event. The projects are judged by media experts and...

The Arts & Culture Gala is designed and coordinated by students completing their Integrative Activity course, inviting fellow students, faculty, parents and friends from outside the College to come share in their accomplishments. The theme for this year’s Gala is ISLAND. As described by one of the students (Maya Gasco-Gilmour): “Island; eye-land, I land —...

The Tashme Project: The Living Archives is a play presented at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre. This play will serve to tie into a section of our Social and Economic History: The Family course which deals with families on the margin and under threat. The class has looked at various groups of individuals in the past whose...

Dawson will once again be the Montreal host for Entrepreneurship Week, coinciding with Global Entrepreneurship Week (Nov. 12-15, 2018). This week is all about creativity, innovation, resources and networking, the early stages of starting a new enterprise whether a social project or in business. Students and faculty will be inspired by hearing people who have...