Perimeter’s teacher network expands to Mexico
Malena Tejeda-Yeomans
Classroom tools that promote STEM literacy and engagement among students are making their way to classrooms in Mexico, thanks to a five-year strategy that is expanding Perimeter’s Teacher Network. In January 2025, three teachers from Colima, Mexico, travelled to Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, to participate in a unique teacher workshop, with professional development opportunities that provided hands-on experience with STEM education strategies. Perimeter’s Teacher Network members can access tools for professional development workshops to share with other educators in their region. The initiative is expected to help support Mexico’s growing need for STEM-trained professionals and bolster enrollment in physics and STEM programs that have been largely undersubscribed.
“As science moves forward, you need to be in touch with international communities, not just local ones. So the opportunity to be here, in this particular way of doing things like they do at Perimeter, it is the only program where high school teachers are being trained in this way.”
—Malena Tejeda-Yeomans, a Simons Emmy Noether Fellow and Director of the Faculty of Sciences at Universidad de Colima
Perimeter’s educational resources bring quantum science to life
Quantum science is the driving force behind a growing industry and many technologies, but it is a challenging subject to learn and teach. In 2025, Perimeter Institute’s outreach team released a new quantum technology classroom resource for teachers who are new to teaching quantum mechanics. The resource provides fun and accessible teaching materials complete with hands-on activities to support scientific literacy that extends beyond the classroom to the public.
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Perimeter Institute offers free, high-quality digital resources that help teachers bring key physics and science concepts to life through ready-to-use lesson plans, hands-on activities, customizable worksheets, background materials, and original PI videos.
“Quantum is a growing industry, especially in Canada, and to develop the technology in an efficient and responsible manner requires education. We need to educate students in a holistic manner so that they can make informed decisions related to their career options.”
—Bindiya Arora, PSI Fellow and co-lead of Perimeter’s Ethics in Physics Working Group
What we learned at Perimeter’s Inspiring Future Women in Science Conference
Perimeter’s 2025 Inspiring Future Women in Science conference hosted 153 high school students in Waterloo and was livestreamed across Canada. The inspirational half-day event is an annual celebration of women in STEM careers, with presenting sponsor Linamar. The first keynote speaker was 19-year-old Elisa Torres Durney, a Chilean Duke University student and founder of Girls In Quantum, an organization dedicated to making quantum computing accessible. The organization has impacted more than 5,000 students in 27 countries. The second keynote speaker was Holly Fruehwald, material scientist and research officer at the National Research Council of Canada. Fruehwald discussed the impact of mentors and shared her own story about how an inspiring Grade 11 chemistry teacher changed her career trajectory.
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Linamar Corporation is the presenting sponsor of Inspiring Future Women in Science.
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