Three Minute Thesis

3MT Events

To participate in SFU 3MT Finals, you must first compete in your faculty 3MT event or the Open Wildcard Heat. If you are a winner in your heat, you will be invited to compete in the SFU 3MT Finals.  SFU Finalists are then invited to participate in regional events.

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Faculty Heats

French speaking master's and doctoral students can compete in the Ma thèse en 180 secondes (MT180) competition, even if you're participating in a Faculty Heat!

Graduate Studies 3MT

Wildcard

Date & Time Location Registration  
Wednesday, March 19
12:00 - 1:00 pm
TBD TBD

The wildcard competition is open to graduate students who can't attend their faculty heat or whose faculty did not have a heat. Participants are only allowed to compete once in either their faculty heat or the wildcard competition. Students will participate in person/live.

Organizer's Contact: Charity Slobod at gpsprod@sfu.ca
Deadline to submit Title Slide + Presentation Slide: TBA

Finals

Date & Time Location Registration  
Thursday, April 10 
SYRE Theatre 1002 and SYRE Atrium  

The winners of each faculty heat and the Wildcard heat will be invited to compete in the SFU 3MT Finals.

WESTERN REGIONALS 

Organized by the Western Canadian Deans of Graduate Studies (WCDGS), up to 17 graduate students from Western Canadian Deans' Agreement participating universities are eligible to participate. The top three competitors at the Western Regional 3MT Competition will go on to compete at the National Canadian Competition.

NATIONALS

Sponsored by the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS), three graduate students will move forward from the Western Regional competition to the nationals.