The Carleton 4th Annual Community Engagement event, Making Connections!, is organized into three activities:

• Speed-presentations by Carleton students involved in community based projects,
• A Community-Campus Networking event where you can meet with faculty and community partners* and hear about their projects, and
• A panel discussion titled “Community Culture Shock” on the power, joys and tribulations of Community-Campus Partnerships featuring Marc-Andre Clement of “Culture Shock Canada” and students from CCDP3003 (Communication Skills for Multimedia Design Students), moderated by Lisa Meyer (School of Linguistics and Language Studies).

THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL! To REGISTER, click on the additional details link above.

Carleton session hosts include faculty members from Geography and Environmental Studies, Public Affairs, Political Science, Psychology, Music, Engineering as well as representatives from the Let’s Talk Science program, the Global Academy, and Futurefunder, Carleton’s crowd-funding tool.

Community organization hosts include: Causeway Work Centre, Hub Ottawa, Hidden Harvest Ottawa, The Happy City Initiative, Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital, Entrymark, the Alliance to End Homelessness, Canada’s Digital Policy Forum, and Ottawa’s Eco-Talent Network.

SPONSORS: Carleton’s Committee on Community Engaged Pedagogy (CCEP), the Office of the Provost, the Faculty of Public Affairs, the Discovery Centre, and the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) research project.