Undergraduate Experiential Learning Info Session
Are you looking for hands-on opportunities to apply and gain new skills beyond the classroom, but you are not sure where to start?
Join the Office of Experiential Learning and Community Outreach for a special info session where we answer all of your questions over free delicious pizza!
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #3 - Introduction to Industry Analysis
This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
Activity Booklet: Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall! - 2026 edition
The Office of Experiential Learning and Community Outreach in collaboration with Let’s Talk Science at McGill University, has put together a lovely free online booklet of self-paced activities about fall. Explore the fall season and discover how different mammals, birds and insects prepare themselves for the upcoming freezing winter. Lear how to safely interact with ducks, play matching games and much more.
Activity Booklet: Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall! - 2026 edition
The Office of Experiential Learning and Community Outreach in collaboration with Let’s Talk Science at McGill University, has put together a lovely free online booklet of self-paced activities about fall.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #4 - Foundations of IP and Patent Searching
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Science Literacy Week: The Delicious World of Winter Squash @ Mac
Join us in celebrating Science Literacy Week!
Come learn about the native squashes of Quebec and discover the varieties grown right here on campus at the Mac Market. Test your knowledge through games, try samples of a new squash recipe created by human nutrition students, gain new cooking tips, and much more!
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #5 - Market Research and Analysis of Competition
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a new market research canvas tool.
Science Literacy Week: The Delicious World of Winter Squash @ Redpath Museum
Join us in celebrating Science Literacy Week!
Come learn about the native squashes of Quebec and discover the varieties grown right here on campus at the Mac Market. Test your knowledge through games, get a new squash recipe created by human nutrition students, gain new cooking tips, and much more!
Science Literacy Week: Activity Booklet The Mysteries of Halloween - 2026 edition
The Office of Experiential Learning and Community Outreach in collaboration with Let’s Talk Science at McGill University, has put together a lovely free online booklet of self-paced activities about Halloween.
Discover an exciting collection of science facts and activities!
Graduate Fall Retreat
First annual professional development retreat for AES graduate students in MSc (thesis) and PhD programs! Preliminary agenda: Opening address with refreshments, alumni career panel, reflection activities, thesis writing activities. Catered lunch with closing address. Nature walk in Arboretum and other possible activities.
Register here
Workshop #1: Lister Family Engaged Science Three Minute Thesis Competition (10:30am)
Macdonald Campus master’s and doctoral student competitors present their research in 3 minutes to a non-specialist audience with one non-animated slide (competition rules).
Workshop #1: Lister Family Engaged Science Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition (12:00pm)
Macdonald Campus master’s and doctoral student competitors present their research in 3 minutes to a non-specialist audience with one non-animated slide (competition rules).
Workshop #1: Lister Family Engaged Science Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition (1:30pm)
Macdonald Campus master’s and doctoral student competitors present their research in 3 minutes to a non-specialist audience with one non-animated slide (competition rules).
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #6 - Customer Discovery
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Date: Oct. 21st, 2026 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Lister Family Engaged Science Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Since 2017, the Lister Family Engaged Science Initiative has supported the Lister Family Engaged Science Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.
