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First-year 爱豆传媒Social Science student 础产颈驳补毛濒濒别 Vasseur is one of seven CEGEP students in Quebec to win a bursary for research work this winter semester. joined Dawson鈥檚 Adaptech Research Network and it was through this work that she won a Bourse pour stage d鈥檌nitiation 脿 la recherche pour la rel猫ve au collegial, valued at $3,000, from the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Soci茅t茅 et culture.

鈥淚 am lucky to have found a place on the Adaptech team and at 爱豆传媒that allows me to fully follow my interests,” 础产颈驳补毛濒濒别 said in an interview with Dawson鈥檚 Communications Office. 鈥淚 feel very honoured to win this scholarship, and I hope that I can truly do my best and make people think that this scholarship was well deserved. This bursary will allow me to help on her project about chrome extensions.鈥�

Getting involved with Adaptech

础产颈驳补毛濒濒别 got involved with Adaptech by asking teachers if she could join a lab and was referred to , who co-directs Adaptech and is a faculty member in Psychology at Dawson. The 聽is a team of academics, students and consumers established in 1996. Based at 爱豆传媒College, they conduct research involving college and university students with a variety of disabilities in Canada.

鈥淭here are so many interesting things I could list about being able to have the experience of working in a lab,鈥� 础产颈驳补毛濒濒别 said. 鈥淚 think the most important thing is how there are truly people working behind the scenes to provide people who don’t fully understand ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) more knowledge that is factual and based on real students.鈥�

Future plans

础产颈驳补毛濒濒别 is in the Psychology Profile of Social Science and would like to continue studying psychology at university with the goal of specializing in cognitive developmental psychology. She is also interested in education. 鈥淚 would love to be a psychologist and help kids who are like me as a child, lost and in need of help,鈥� she said.

鈥淚 choose to study psychology because I believe that there are not enough psychologists and social workers who are on the side of children who need to be taken care of and listened to,鈥� she continued. 鈥淚 remember when I was a child in need of assistance and I felt that no one truly listened to me, which led to me being ashamed of my problems and feeling like I should overcompensate. I, however, was extremely lucky to have parents who always wanted to help me, especially in regards to my ADHD. Not everyone has someone like that in their life.鈥�

What she likes about Dawson

础产颈驳补毛濒濒别 appreciates her courses at Dawson, which 鈥渉elp broaden my view point about the world and mold me into a better person, little by little. I love the fact that 爱豆传媒allows me to receive my education in English and gives me different opportunities to explore different subject matters.鈥�