1 - Media
There are many excellent career opportunities in media. Come hear from program show hosts/deejays in radio, television reporters and producers and newspaper writers and editors from CTV, Global TV, City TV, CBC, 925 The Beat FM, Virgin Radio and The Montreal Gazette. Attention will also be focused on trends in social media. This is your opportunity to ask questions to experts in the field whom students normally do not have access to.
2 - Accounting Studies
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4 - The Biomedical Laboratory
The Biomedical Laboratory program is a three-year science-based program designed to give students essential theoretical knowledge in different medical areas and the practical skills to perform and interpret a variety of laboratory tests. As Healthcare professionals, medical technologists contribute to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease by providing laboratory services to other clients.
5 - Assistance to Health Care Facilities
Ever wonder how to safely move a 200lb person by yourself?
Join us and we will show you how!
6 - Pharmacy and Technical Assistant
Come one, come all!
Join the dynamic pharmacy team as they pound and crush pills, and in just a few quick steps, magically turn them into a beautiful cream for great looking skin!
7 - Automated Systems Electromechanics
This is a promising field for problem solvers who have the capacity to grasp technical details. There is employment available in industries ranging from aircraft engine manufacturing to pharmaceuticals. Come and check out our robots & motor systems.
8 - Automobile Mechanics & Sales of Mechanical Parts and Accessories
Whether you love working on cars or wish to learn more about the professional world of automobile parts and accessories, this workshop is an excellent first step to discovering the basics of auto maintenance, repair and parts. Participate in a hands-on session to explore engines and the always growing industry of Automobile Mechanics.
10 - Cabinetmaking & Furniture Finishing
Would you like to make a beautiful piece of furniture and finish it? Then come and discover the art of woodwork. In this hands-on workshop, you will explore different woodworking skills that will lead you to a promising & creative career.
14 - Digital Graphics Technology Class Overview
Printing technology professions need an understanding of printing press operation, graphics creation and design. Coursework in the Digital Graphics Technology program incorporates practical hands-on practice and classroom lectures. Students learn to set up and operate offset and digital printing presses and process print jobs. They also learn to create and print digital graphics, with programs like Adobe Creative suite CS5. Students learn about specialty printing as well, including flexography and screen printing.
15 - Hairdressing
Title: Transform long and straight hair into a World of Curls
Content: Come and explore the world of thermal styling. We will show you how to use cloth, color and foil paper to create curls and twirls of beautiful bountiful hair
16 - Industrial Drafting
Our program enables students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to produce drawings quickly and accurately, using a computerized workstation. All topics relate to industry and include things such as detail and assembly drawing, development of mechanisms, machine frames along with electrical and electronic and sheet metal drawing. Students will use the current versions of AutoCAD, Solidworks and Autodesk Inventor.
17 - Machining Techniques
Ever ask how they make those fabled cars of Enzo Ferrari? Do the names Boeing Aircraft, Bombardier Aerospace and Bell Helicopter suggest excitement? Would you be interested in working for a company that builds satellites and sends them into space..... If you answered yes, then machining could be in your future. In 1.5 years you will learn to cut metals, use many different machines including state of the art computerized machines. Join us to check it out!
20 - Lab Technology/ Analytical Laboratory
Laboratory Technology - Analytical Chemistry Program is a three-year applied science program given in English only at Dawson College with a possibility for a work-study program. The technologists specializing in analytical chemistry will be able to perform chemical analyses and participate in the development of new analytical methods in the areas of quality control, research and development and production. Some fields where Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Technologists work are pharmaceutical, environmental, and petroleum chemistry. In this workshop we will explore certain analysis techniques and apply some of them in a forensic investigation.
21 - Physical Rehabilitation
In this workshop, students will learn about the profession of Physical Rehabilitation Therapist.
A small hands-on activity on walking assistance will also be presented.
22 - Professional Cooking/Pastry Making and Food and Beverage Services
Interested in a fast-paced, hands-on and creative career in Culinary Arts?
  • Visit our state of-the art kitchens
  • Take part in demonstrations for our Professional Cooking, Food and Beverage and Contemporary Professional Pastry Making programs and savor what we have to offer.
  • Start your life; live your dream at St. Pius Culinary Institute and Business Centre
23 - Interior Decorating and Design
If you are creative and love to work with colour, this is the workshop for you! You will use your creativity to create an abstract design using shapes of various colours and sizes. It's time to let your creative juices flow.
24 - Starting A Business
Have you ever dreamed about being your own boss? Do you have a great idea for a product or service that you think people need? If you ever considered creating your own enterprise, then sign up for this workshop and learn what it means be an Entrepreneur!!
25 - Travel Sales, Hotel Reception and Professional Sales
At the heart of any industry is the art of sales, marketing and customer satisfaction
  • We offer training that can take you across the world in an array of fascinating careers.
  • Visit our I World interactive Hotel Reception facility and our modern classrooms and labs to see what the world has to offer you.
  • Start your life; live your dream at St. Pius Culinary Institute and Business Centre
26 - Welding & Fitting
Ever thought about building a race car or custom motorcycle? Want to have a sense of accomplishment every day? Then a career in welding is for you. Over the span of the course, you will learn how to weld steel, aluminum and stainless steel. Welding is an exciting hands-on career that can open many doors. Companies are always looking for trained welders. You can be one of them!
27 - Early Childhood Education (1:20 - 2:05 only)
Do you love Children? Early Childhood Education is a three-year Program that provides the professional training to become a daycare educator. Through concrete examples, students will become familiar with the field which understand how, through their fieldwork in a daycare centre, they will practice applying the knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired in their courses.
28 - Carpentry
This program prepares students to practice the trade in residential and commercial Construction and civil engineering and road works. They are required to develop skills in communication, teamwork and interpersonal skills. They must adjust, control, handle and operate machinery and materials with precision.
29 - Stationary Engine Mechanics
Learn an existing trade and discover the world of HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning). The only English program of its kind in Quebec, Stationary Engine Mechanics will give you the tools necessary to work with Stationary Engines. What is a stationary engine? It is a machine so big that it cannot be moved to be fixed, it has to be services or repaired on-site. Vastly used in the Gas and Oil industry, these machines are also found in big production sites and building complexes. With an employment rate hovering around 80% you will learn how to install, service or repair these mega machines.
Upon successful completion of this DVS you will receive a 4B license that will provide you with the tools to ensure the proper operation of heating, cooling, ventilation and air conditioning of a building; for monitoring, maintenance and repair of equipment for heating, refrigeration, ventilation and air conditioning; for the effective supervision of a thermal power plant.
30 - Security Guard Course
When you are a security guard can you arrest an individual? What are the rights and responsibilities of a security guard? The 3 week training to become a Security Guard will answer those questions!

This program, a mandatory requirement for first-time license applicants, has been designed for anyone wishing to work in private security in Quebec. The required training consists of three courses. The first deals with the occupation of security guards and the legal context of the occupation; the second deals with the role of security guards in emergency situations; and the third deals with first-aid techniques.
31 - Landscape Operations and the Horticulture and Garden Centre Operations
The workshop will look at how a landscape is created from the ground up. Students will participate in constructing a wood structure and a stone pathway to demonstrate landscape work. The horticulture program will discuss soils, plants and their care, students will have the opportunity to dig in and do a plant re potting exercise
32 - A Career in Firefighting
Firefighting is not simply a job but a career adventure. It is a very satisfying, Exciting, dangerous and rewarding career that focuses on preventing and putting out fires, as well as protecting the public. Come and learn all about the necessary requirements in becoming a firefighter from experienced professional firefighters of the City of Montreal that will be presenting the following workshop.
33 - Computer Graphics Techniques (Desktop Publishing)
Visit our workshop and let your creative flair and imagination loose with Photoshop, Illustrator and Web software. Learn some of the "how to tricks" while you are there.