This year’s CALL festival was based on the theme METAMORPHOSIS. The festival featured some twenty different events, and almost all of the projects showcased were the work of Dawson students. This was also a lunch time concert that inaugurated the festival. Eleven students received awards for their IA project as well as two students received...

Thirty student artists joined together to help raise money for the “Bruno Mital B Positive Scholarship Fund” at the eighteenth annual Artists in Bloom auction held on Thursday, April 23. Artists had only two hours to complete a painting, as attendees gathered and watched artworks come to life before their eyes. The auction raised a...

There were three end of the year gallery-based events, the first of which, Glitch a screen culture exhibit. The second, Flash Back Friday (FBF), a charity fundraiser with all proceeds going to the Montreal Children’s Hospital and the third event lnsitewas a social media experiment. These events were an excellent opportunity for students to showcase...

The Dawson College Annual Bilingual Business Case Competition offers teams from participating CEGEPs across Québec the opportunity to demonstrate their presentation skills and business acumen by analyzing, assessing and solving a business case. The competition features two streams: one with an accounting/finance focus and one with a marketing focus. The competition is bilingual: cases are...

The principle objective of this trip was to observe the direct consequences on the natural surroundings around the oil refineries in Montréal-Est. The central themes of the project were the environmental consequences of the oil refineries and the relationship between the refineries and the residents and wildlife of the borough. The project combined students from...

Students from Professional Theatre attended a brand new play “The Envelope” written by Montreal playwright, Vittorio Rossi. The play sheds light on the Canadian Film Industry and its relationship with the film industry in the United States, particularly in Hollywood. It was an opportunity for students to see a local artist and actors bring to...

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...

CRLT students had the opportunity to attend a presentation by Nancy Kosik on current Business Etiquette practices. Students learnt how to enter a group or conversation, establish personal presence, how to exit a group conversation to continue to mingle and manage and maximize the opportunities at a cocktail party. The seminar provided the students with...

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...

This year 30 rowers were able to take advantage of this training camp opportunity. The men and women’s crew teams at Dawson College travelled to the training facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This venue is extremely popular with many scholastic programs from across the northeast of the U.S. as well as Ontario. At Oak Ridge,...