Environment
Perimeter offers a broad range of opportunities for PSI students collaborate within the scientific community and beyond through social activities, outreach initiatives, and cultural events.
Activities and excursions
Researchers, students, friends, and families enjoy a variety of organized events. These include:
- the open-mic Musical Pub Nights in Perimeter’s Black Hole Bistro
- homecoming BBQs
- picnics along Silver Lake in the adjacent park
- canoe trips
- winter holiday dinners
- Halloween activities
- Ramadan, Rosh Hashanah, Chinese New Year celebrations, and many other yearly events.
The Institute’s physical fitness area provides a wide variety of gym equipment and activities from squash to yoga. And further afield, Perimeter organizes summer day-tripping excursions to canoe the Grand River, and winter treks to ski and snowshoe at the Blue Mountain Resort. Other activities include ice hockey at the nearby indoor rink.
Many enjoy running and participating in marathons in Waterloo, Toronto, and Ottawa. The Institute also helps foster participation by interested individuals and small groups in a variety of sporting activities throughout the region via soccer leagues, tennis clubs, rock climbing associations, swim clubs, and a variety of organizations.
With two universities, a college, think tanks, the high-tech sector, and many business start-ups in the area, there is also opportunity to visit other centres, enjoy stimulating talks, and make new friends who value science from new and interesting points of view.
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Perimeter Outreach opportunities
Contributing to Perimeter's dynamic environment is a commitment to year-round Educational Outreach opportunities for students, teachers and members of the general public. The programming involves events held at Perimeter, across Canada, and around the world. These include student science camps, teacher training workshops, special festivals for the public, and more.