SURGE Clubs

Weekly drop in sessions intended to engage students throughout the term on various technologies essential to research. Currently includes the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Club, hosted weekly on Wednesdays in SURGE from 3pm to 5pm.

Deep Dives

Multi-day or multi-week activities intended to provide students with brief, but deep exposure to the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship through experiential learning in team settings. Includes Hackathons, Make-a-thons, Startup Weekends, and Dalbox Access.

Employment Opportunities

Student employment with SURGE provides opportunities for students to gain experiential training in leadership and scientific communication, with mentors from Dalhousie University’s science and communications communities.

Inclusion & Accessibility Innovation

SURGE supports initiatives across Dalhousie University and beyond in making science more inclusive and accessible to all. SURGE is a proud partner and supporter of the Team Visual Assist project

Science Innovation Class

A full-year capstone course focusing on the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship. This course is project-based and taught through experiential learning in teams.

Residency Program

This program provides mentorship, space, and financial support for promising teams as they coalesce to refine their business model, develop prototypes, validate hypotheses, and seek initial funding and traction.

Meet our residency teams!

Discover Coding

Discover Coding introduces the world of scientific coding to science students, faculty and staff. Workshops are available in both R and Python languages.

Dalbox Programming

There are 5 Innovation sandboxes at Dalhousie University: ShiftKey Labs (Computer Science), Pulse (Health), IDEA (Engineering), Cultiv8 (Agriculture), and SURGE (Science). These 5 sandboxes occasionally host interdisciplinary workshops that bring students from all 5 faculties together to tackle the world’s big problems.