{"id":1177,"date":"2017-05-08T17:59:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T21:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:58:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:58:46","slug":"science-on-tourne-competition-recognizes-two-dawson-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/science-on-tourne-competition-recognizes-two-dawson-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Science, on tourne! competition recognizes two Dawson students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national finals of the 25<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the <em>Science, on tourne!<\/em> science competition were held on May 6 at C\u00e9gep Garneau in Qu\u00e9bec City with 36 CEGEP teams competing. The challenge was centred on the theme of Masquerade Ball, with the aim to build an autonomous engine that could pick up golf balls and place them in a container. Close to 400 people were on hand to watch the competition play out, with the team from C\u00e9gep de Trois-Rivi\u00e8res taking the top prize.<\/p>\n<p>Two Dawson students were recognized for their individual achievement: Justin Simard, a student in Mechanical Engineering Technology, was awarded the ETS prize, which gives Justin $1,500 for tuition costs at the \u00c9cole de technologie sup\u00e9rieure, while Adrian Barraza-Borzone took the Prix de participation Hydro. Adrian is also a student in Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations to them both and to all the Science, on tourne! competitors.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1178\" src=\"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/130\/tourne1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/130\/tourne1.png 1050w, https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/130\/tourne1-800x532.png 800w, https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/130\/tourne1-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1179\" src=\"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/130\/tourne2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1049\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/130\/tourne2.png 1049w, https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/130\/tourne2-800x533.png 800w, https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/130\/tourne2-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1049px) 100vw, 1049px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national finals of the 25th edition of the Science, on tourne! science competition were held on May 6 at C\u00e9gep Garneau in Qu\u00e9bec City with 36 CEGEP teams competing. The challenge was centred on the theme of Masquerade Ball, with the aim to build an autonomous engine that could pick up golf balls and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}