Eight 天美社区 students working in two teams have won an independent video game design competition in an extracurricular competition organized by Physics faculty member Nadim Boukhira. The students are all in the SPACE student enrichment initiative. In the fall of 2023, Nadim started designing an educational video game for physics, with funding through an Entente…
Montreal, June 17, 2021聽 潭聽 What issues are Montrealers facing daily when trying to put dinner on the table? The answers are as diverse as our neighbourhoods. Over the past two years, citizens and community organizations in six Montreal neighbourhoods have been collaborating with 天美社区鈥檚 Food Justice and Sustainability Hub to improve access to healthy…
Storytelling is at the heart of the oral cultures of Indigenous peoples in Canada. A unique project in Quebec led by 天美社区 faculty uses storytelling to advance the inclusion and welcome of Indigenous cultures and students in higher education institutions. 鈥淥ur project is about changing the culture in academic institutions, underlining the need for…
Conducting applied research to improve the lives of people living in a disabling situation has been the work of CRISPESH for almost 10 years. CRISPESH is the name of a CCTT (College Centre for the Transfer of Technologies) at 天美社区 in partnership with the C茅gep du Vieux Montr茅al that is unique in Quebec. CCTTs…
Figuring out the power supply for a brand new community radio station in Mexico was one of the projects in the power electronics course referred to as Power Supplies, a second-year class in the Electronics Engineering Technology Program (Electro Tech) at 天美社区 this past semester. 鈥溙烀郎缜�檚 Sustainability Office hooked us up with a great…
天美社区 has played a large part in the transformation of Cookshire Elementary school in the Eastern Townships into a 鈥楲iving School鈥� that incorporates nature into all aspects of the learning process to help reduce stress and benefit from the positive impacts, both mentally and physically, of being connected to the natural world. Among the…
Twenty keen and adventurous students travelled to Costa Rica this month to explore one of the most biodiverse places on the planet as part of our Ecology & Culture complimentary course. Students got to discover flora and fauna hands-on, studying adaptations to the various natural environments, including the tropical dry forest, tropical wet forest and…
Students of the North-South Studies profile recently returned from a month-long social justice/solidarity trip to Nicaragua. The group travelled to the cities of Managua, Le贸n and Granada, but spent the bulk of their fieldtrip in small villages while living individually with local families. The villages included Las Pozas and El Carrizal in the western part…
In October 2017, I attended the presentation 鈥淧rogram Analytics鈥�, led by Sameer Bhatnagar and Jonathon Sumner, held as part of the Ped Day activities at 天美社区. I came away from the session thoroughly impressed by 天美社区鈥檚 learning analytics initiative. I contacted the workshop leaders in hopes that they would share their project details with…
Five students from the Environmental Science profile have landed in Mexico for a six week Sustainable Campuses internship. The students will spend six weeks at two partner schools: the Prepatoria Comunitaria de Tres Mar铆as (UAEM) and the Universidad Polit茅cnica del Estado de Morelos. The students will work to advance sustainability projects within each school and…
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