Science poster competition
Are you an Undergraduate or a Master's student and want to develop your scientific communication skills?
Take part in the next Poster Competition to be held on February 26, 2026.
The goal of the competition is to introduce complex scientific notions in easy-to-understand language. You can choose to present –in lay terms–a topic related to your ongoing research project. You must give an individual or group oral presentation with the help of a poster to showcase your work. The presentations will be delivered in French or English and will be assessed by a jury.
The competition
- Online registration between January 5 and February 6, 2026.
- February 3, 2026 (12 p.m. in room A-1841): information meeting (not mandatory).
- February 19, 2026: deadline to submit the final version of the poster.
While preparing for the contest, benefit from some training by the SARA program at the library. You can register for one (or more) of the workshops:
- "Scientific Posters | Scientific Posters": A workshop with practical advice on poster presentations.
- “SARA: Science outreach competition (poster)”: A workshop to obtain personalized feedback on what you are preparing.
Register for the workshops and please note that places are limited!
- February 26, 2026: presentation of the posters in front of a jury in kiosks during lunch time (11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.). The poster and oral performance of each team will be evaluated by the members of the jury based on an evaluation grid.
The awards ceremony will take place on February 26. Following the competition, the five best posters will be exhibited at the library.
Prizes to win
- First place: $500
- Second place: $300
- Audience Award: $200
Results of 2025 Edition
In the general category:
1st place: Léo Soucy for his poster "Apprentissage profond appliqué à la prévision des apports en eau dans un réservoir hydroélectrique".
2nd place: Ishman Kaur for her poster "Modeling cancer cell-derived Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) using synthetic nanoparticles by micromixers to study metastasis"
The Audience Award went to Emma Perez for her poster "Langue des signes québécoise : et si l'IA devenait votre interprète?"
In the sustainable development category:
1st place: Afsaneh Kheirani for her poster "Damage Mitigation for Small Lighter-Than-Air (SLTA) Systems"
2nd place: Emma Mougeot for her poster "Évolution d’un glissement de terrain à Shar Shäw Tàgà, YT, Ca"
The Audience Award also goes to Afsaneh Kheirani for her poster "Damage Mitigation for Small Lighter-Than-Air (SLTA) Systems".
Consult
- Undergraduate and Graduate Students are invited to present, in lay terms, a topic related to their ongoing research project.
- Participating students (alone or in teams of two) can only submit one poster.
- The Dean's Office will be responsible for printing all the posters selected for the competition in 24''x 36'' format (portrait or landscape).
- Posters and presentations will be evaluated by a jury made up of ÉTS professors but also by staff members.
- All members of the jury will use the same evaluation grid which will be communicated for information purposes to all participants.
- Winners cannot participate in subsequent editions if they are enrolled in the same study program.
- To give students an opportunity to deliver an oral presentation of a scientific or technological topic to a jury and the ÉTS community.
- To give students an opportunity to present a poster that explains a scientific subject in language that is easy for a lay audience to understand. For more information concerning formatting standards for science posters, please consult the following resources: