This year鈥檚 edition of聽challenged students to 鈥渂uild a vehicle that will perform a round trip using wind energy to travel in one direction and potential gravitational energy in the other direction鈥�. This was an especially difficult challenge. In our Local Dawson competition, prizes were given for the competition, oral/written communication, ingenuity, and recycling ($120 each).

The event this year had a slight shift in participation. Mech. Tech. only had a couple of teams competing, whereas Science Program had the majority of the teams. The Engineering Physics course made participation in this event park of the course curriculum (Helene Nadeau & JF Briere), so the science students really got some hands on experience building and executing.

The winners for our local competition were:

1. SoT Challenge: Mitchell Keeley, George Vlad Calapod, Chaitanya Varier (Science)
2. SoT Communication: Jonathan Borestsky, Morgan Gold, Emil Levkovsky (Science)
3. SoT Ingenuity: Michael O鈥橫eara (Science)
4. SoT Ecoresponsability: Alex Boivin, David Vinitski (Mech Tech)

Our Dawson team placed 6th overall out of 32 CEGEPs at the the Provincial Finals held at C茅gep de Trois-Rivi猫res聽on April 30. Our participating members should be proud.