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. The 2019-2020 season will represent Dawson College’s tenth consecutive year participating. A growing number of students from various...

The 2019 edition of Science, On Tourne! challenges students to build an autonomous, mobile machine that races on a circular track using only the force of gravity for its propulsion. The winning team from the Local Dawson competition will be sent to the Finals held at Cégep de Chicoutimi on May 3 & 4. The...

The 5th annual ScienceFest (SF’19) conference, to be held April 3rd to April 13th 2019, is a dynamic student-centered conference at Dawson College that shares students’ knowledge, creativity and passion for learning science in a public forum and recognizes them for their efforts and achievements in 2018-2019. It foresees involvement from all disciplines in the...

Science students will take a trip to Ottawa to visit research facilities at the National Research Council (NRC) and the Transportation Safety Board (TSB). Students will be separated into three groups and each group will visit 4 different labs for about 1.5 hours each visit (total of 12 labs). In preparation for the lab visits...

A team of professional engineers fom Haply who have put together robotics workshops for students to get them interested in mechatronics and programming have been invited to Dawson. They will coach students, starting with basic microcontrollers and up through motor control.  Students will also program an Arduino-based “robot” in pairs.

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. The 2018-2019 season will represent Dawson College’s ninth consecutive year participating. A growing number of students from various...

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...

The Dawson Research Journal of Experimental Science (DrJes) is a publication that seeks to disseminate student research in print form. It provides students with an early introduction to the scientific method and to the business of science. Articles are based on developing a hypothesis, conducting experiments to test the hypothesis and formulating a conclusion. The...

This is a country-wide, student run conference organized every year at different institutions across the country. The CUMC is locally organized and is run under the supervision of the Canadian Mathematical Society Student Committee (Studc). This year’s event will take place in Saskatoon, from the 11th to the 15th of July, hosted by the University...

The 2018 edition of Science, On Tourne! challenges students to build an autonomous, mobile machine that catapults badminton birdies into target areas. The winning team from the Local Dawson competition will be sent to the Finals held at Cégep de Granby on May 4 & 5. The local Dawson competition will have teams from Mechanical...