Sciences Participating with Arts & Culture in Education

SPACEweek Showcase 2023

The second annual SPACEweek will take place during the first week of May. The SPACEweek showcase in 3C.1 will feature work by students from across the arts and sciences who participated in SPACE in 2022-23. It will include displays, demonstrations, interactive activities, student talks and presentations, readings, and competitions. Robotics demonstrations and presentations will be held throughout the week. 

 

SPACEweek Activities

WHAT IF Art Prompts
Leave your mark at the SPACE Showcase: create alternate versions of famous artworks by following a series of prompts! Available during the opening hours of the Showcase, and open to all!

WHAT IF Q&As
Pop by the SPACE Showcase to view works of art created by students! Write a WHAT IF question related to one of the artworks for another visitor to answer. Then provide an answer to a question written by someone else. Absurd and serious questions are both welcome, and may result in absurd or serious answers!

makerSPACE Residency
Come visit the makerSPACE residency. Students will be working on and completing their projects throughout the week; check out the opportunities for completing a project in SPACE!

Cast your vote for the people's choice award for the ScienceFest 2023 Photo Contest!

Monday May 1

4:00-5:30 p.m.—Workshop: “Design and 3D Print Your First Widget”
Meet in Mechanical Engineering Technology room -2H.14 

In this workshop, participants will be guided through the basics of CAD design and then create their own object (“widget”) for printing. Outcomes will be displayed at SPACEweek. No experience necessary!

Tuesday May 2

11-12:00 noon—AR Cité Guided Tour
Please meet in room 3C.1 at 11:00 a.m. to join the tour.

Imagine if our city could speak… what secrets would be revealed?

Over the past two years Dawson students and faculty from a range of disciplines have been building AR Cité, an augmented reality app that reveals the hidden stories behind the people and places in and around Dawson College.

During the tour, you'll use the app to learn and engage with the mural of world-renowned Abanaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, the former Children's Hospital, the Montreal Forum, and many more. You’ll also discover Dawson’s multi-faceted past and experience the location-based vignettes that students created about social issues that matter to them.

Wednesday May 3

1:00 to 2:30 p.m.—Student Presentations
Co-Lab, 3F.43
This ScienceFest 2023 conference session will include project presentations by SPACErs, exploring a range of topics including engineering robotics, planetary science, particle physics, psychology, and intersections of the arts and sciences

3:00-4:00 p.m.—AR Cité Guided Tour
Please meet in room 3C.1 at 3:00 p.m. to join the tour.

Imagine if our city could speak… what secrets would be revealed?

Over the past two years Dawson students and faculty from a range of disciplines have been building AR Cité, an augmented reality app that reveals the hidden stories behind the people and places in and around Dawson College.

During the tour, you'll use the app to learn and engage with the mural of world-renowned Abanaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, the former Children's Hospital, the Montreal Forum, and many more. You’ll also discover Dawson’s multi-faceted past and experience the location-based vignettes that students created about social issues that matter to them.

4-5:30 p.m.—Dawson Robotics
3C.1

Talks by the team leads of the Dawson Robotics Team which won the overall championship at the AVIA 2023 CRC Robotic competition.

Thursday May 4

2:45-3:30 p.m.— Reading of SPACE writing contest winners
5B.16

Join some of the winners of the SPACE annual writing contest as they read from their work and discuss how they took inspiration from this year's WHAT IF? theme. Reading will include a Q&A.

4:00-5:00 p.m.—ChatGPT Performances 
5B.16

Come hear students perform songs they created using ChatGPT then vote for your favourite songs! Performances will be followed by a Q&A with Dawson AI leads Joel Trudeau and Robert Stephens on the potential impact of ChatGPT on creativity and the arts. 

Friday May 5

1-2:45 p.m.—A grand tour of the solar system: from Mercury and the Moon to the outer reaches!
5B.16

Planetary Science Talks: Virtual Presentations

The four presentations that comprise this Friday afternoon speakers’ series sweep through the solar system and present the latest/greatest thinking on worlds still largely unknown. The presentations elaborate: 

1) the possible presence of a sub-surface Europan ocean; 
2) Saturnian ring-composition; 
3) the cold-trapping of frozen water on the Moon; and, 
4) the possibility of paleo-lakes on Mars. 

Ishan Mishra will present on “Europa Clipper: Exploring an Alien Ocean World.”
Amanda Hendrix will present on "Icy Saturnian moons: environmental effects on surface composition".
Jean-Pierre Williams will give a talk on "Temperatures in the Polar Regions of the Moon: The Potential for Cold Trapping Ices and the Implications for Future Exploration."
Timothy Goudge will present on “Catastrophic Lake Breach Floods and the Early Mars Landscape.”

 

3:00 p.m.—Robotics Finals
3C.1
The Dawson Robotics Hackathon is a collaborative, interdisciplinary event where students work in teams to find creative solutions to a themed navigation challenge. On Friday April 28th teams will be given their kits and learn about the precise details of the challenge. Teams will build and code their solutions over the week of May 1-5 then compete for fun and prizes on the 5th.

https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/science-fest/roboticshack2023/

5-6:30—AI Internship Presentations
Colab 3F.38 Room TBC

A Pipeline to AI Adoption: AI Experiential Learning at the College and University levels
The Applied AI Institute is supporting a collaborative project between Concordia Continuing Education and Dawson College to develop experiential learning opportunities for students interested in AI. More than 30 students have been recruited for experiential learning (EL) opportunities offered as internships. The goal of this pilot, supported through the Pôle IA, is to provide different cross-disciplinary projects for students working together in teams. In this session the 6 student groups will provide final presentations of their projects as a culmination of their internships.